Keyword: period drama

Indian Summers

7.3

2015

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Drama set in 1932 during the final years of British colonial rule in India.

Fanny Hill

6.6

2007

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Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Daviess offer to join the London working girls with Mrs. Brown, a madam who recruits her as charmingly fresh enough to wait, in-living, on gentlemen. The first night, her room- and bed-mate Phoebe starts her sexual education, next she revels in being fitted her first-ever fancy frock. Her first client, Mr. Crofts, is neither naive nor attractive, rather a paying old rapist who isnt satisfied. Then the party scene, where men are younger and more charming. Handsome merchants son Charles Standing declares love at first sight and offers to take Fanny away. After a few heavenly days of young love, they intend to demands Sirs blessing for their marriage, but as the ogre actually was her unsatisfied customer, Charles is made to choose between her and his future and leaves for colonial India. Being destitute, Fanny accepts becoming the kept woman of Mr. H., an earls wealthy brother, in a fine London home with domestic staff, but since she wont give her heart he finally bangs her maid - Fanny seduces as revenge her footman William. Both are dismissed. Fanny goes to Mrs. Coles hat-shop, only to find its a front for an upper-class whorehouse, a place where fathers even bring their sons to shed virginity with a virgin girl, a part Fanny plays well even though it breaks young Percys heart. When she arrogantly scorns Mr. H, he has the whorehouse closed down; Fanny barely escapes, but without a dime. Alone on the street, her single act of kindness wins her a sick old rich mans favor, graduating from guest over house maid to companion and sole heir when he dies a few months later. Just then Charles returns...

Vanity Fair

7.3

2018

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An adaptation of the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Middlemarch

7.2

1994

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Middlemarch is a story of provincial life on the brink of momentous change and a deeply moving saga about a group of people striving to give meaning and value to their lives during the Industrial Revolution.

A Young Doctor's Notebook

7.8

2012

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In the early 20th century, a young doctor arrives in a small Russian village around the time of the Russian Revolution to work in the local hospital.

American Woman

6.3

2018

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A posh single mother struggles to raise her two daughters alone in 1970s Los Angeles while she deals with own life along with her two best friends. Inspired by the childhood of reality star Kyle Richards.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

8.4

1970

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A six-episode dramatization of Henry VIIIs relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

7.3

1996

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An adaptation of Anne Brontes novel; a young widow takes her son and moves to Yorkshire.

Lady Chatterley

6.8

1993

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A young womans husband returns wounded after the First World War. Facing a life with a husband now incapable of sexual activity she begins an affair with the groundskeeper.

The Gangster Chronicles

8.1

1981

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The series follows the lives of the three main characters from their youth into becoming major criminal figures in 1920s America.

The Astronaut Wives Club

7.3

2015

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Based on Lily Koppels best-selling titular novel, which tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race.

The Halcyon

7.4

2017

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The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the center of London society and a world at war.

The Aspern Papers

5.2

2018

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A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.

Daisy Miller

6.1

1974

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In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Dead Men

4.5

2018

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Set in the lawless Old West, a young man and his brother are forced on a journey to avenge the death of their father, protect the Apache tribe they have grown to love and reclaim the land and gold that is rightfully theirs.

War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov

8.2

1967

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The 500,000 strong Napoleons army moves through Russia and causes much destruction culminating in the battle of Borodino. The Russian army has to retreat. Moscow is occupied, looted and burned down, but soon Napoleon loses control and has to flee. Both sides suffer tremendous losses in the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.

Empire of Silver

6.1

2009

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In 1899, a care-free young man must prepare to take over his familys Chinese banking empire.

One Desire

6.1

1955

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The \one desire\ of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. With Clints younger brother and an orphaned girl in tow, the couple moves to a Colorado mining town where their love is tested by Judith Watrous, daughter of the town banker, who has her sights on Clint.

Love's Twisting Path

5.1

2018

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A love story torn by swords... In Kyoto in the last days of Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, who aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shoguns police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now a depraved samurai who left his domain putting aside his past ambition, barely makes ends meet. Toyo, a woman who runs a tavern next door, feels affection for Tajuro who guards her place from nasty customers, but he never realizes Toyos feeling... One day, Kazuma, a half-sibling of Tajuro, came to Kyoto to count on his brother. Kazuma has always looked him up and believed that Tajuro left the domain to pursue his ambition to conquer the shogunate. The city patrol finally finds Tajuro, the one marked as a subversive, and attacks him. What fate awaits for Tajuro, Toyo and Kazuma after a battle staking their lives...?

The Eternal Feminine

7

2017

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Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesnt seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions. At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life.

Eighteen Springs

7

1997

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In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.

Draupadi Unleashed

4.9

2019

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The story of a young woman, in 1930s British India, seeking an identity of her own against an arranged marriage and the manipulations of a powerful guru. Bringing to life the struggles of 3 generations of women in a male dominated society.

The Adventures of Nick Carter

6.9

1972

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Detective discovers that a colleagues death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboys wife.

Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion

2.5

2015

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The heartless war of King Henry II against his sons.