If You Liked Tess, Watch These Next
Finished Tess (1979) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Tess, most of them are drama, romance.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Pride & Prejudice(2005)
8.1DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is…
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2.Far from the Madding Crowd(2015)
7.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
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3.Tristan & Isolde(2006)
6.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
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4.Wuthering Heights(1992)
6.6DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her…
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5.The Bridges of Madison County(1995)
7.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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6.Safe Haven(2013)
7.2RomanceThrillerAlso romance
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
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7.I Capture the Castle(2003)
6.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In 1930s England, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and her eccentric family struggle to survive in a decaying English castle.
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8.The Choice(2016)
7.2DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
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9.Endless Love(2014)
6.9DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
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10.Dragonwyck(1946)
6.6DramaRomanceThrillerAlso drama and romance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
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11.Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between(2022)
6.1RomanceDramaAlso romance and drama
Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
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12.Ali and Nino(2016)
6.5DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
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13.Howards End(1992)
7.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile…
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14.Winter's Tale(2014)
6.3DramaFantasyMysteryAlso drama and romance
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
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15.Anna Karenina(1997)
6.1DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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16.Jane Eyre(1996)
6.9DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him.…
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17.The Best of Me(2014)
7.5DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
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18.The Sleeping Dictionary(2003)
6.6DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition, Selima is assigned to sleep with Truscott and teach him the native language and customs. But when…
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19.Peyton Place(1957)
6.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be…
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20.Not Easily Broken(2009)
6.3DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
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