If You Liked The Duchess, Watch These Next
Finished The Duchess (2008) 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 The Duchess, most of them are drama, history, romance.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)
7.2DramaHistoryRomanceAlso drama and history
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
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2.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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3.Victoria & Abdul(2017)
6.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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4.The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)
6.7DramaRomanceHistoryAlso drama and romance
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
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5.Anna Karenina(2012)
6.7DramaRomanceHistoryAlso 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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6.Phantom Thread(2017)
7.3DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
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7.The Girl King(2015)
6.2DramaHistoryRomanceAlso drama and history
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
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8.Great Expectations(1946)
7.3DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad…
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9.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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10.A Room with a View(1986)
6.9DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage…
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11.The Portrait of a Lady(1996)
5.9DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However,…
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12.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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13.The Lion in Winter(1968)
7.4DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Christmas 1183, Angevin Empire: King Henry II plans to announce his successor to the throne. Jockeying for the crown, though, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John to take over. Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor, believes their son Prince Richard should be king. As family and various schemers…
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14.The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex(1939)
6.3DramaHistoryRomanceAlso drama and history
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
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15.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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17.Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007)
6.7DramaHistoryRomanceAlso drama and history
When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard the lives of her people.
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18.The Heiress(1949)
7.8DramaRomanceHistoryAlso drama and romance
In 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
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19.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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