Movies like Tess
24 films close to Tess (1979) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
revenge, based on novel or book · Drama · Renn Productions
murder, love · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book, 19th century · Romance, Drama
murder, revenge, based on novel or book · Drama
Close on feel, same era · Romance, Drama
rape, murder, based on novel or book · Drama
family, based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
revenge, based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
family, based on novel or book, 19th century · Romance, Drama
marriage, love · Romance, Drama
19th century · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book, 19th century · Romance, Drama
social climbing, love · Romance, Drama
Also Roman Polanski · 19th century, based on novel or book · Drama
Close on feel, same era · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book, 19th century · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
19th century · Romance, Drama
murder, based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
rape, murder, revenge · Drama
murder · Romance, Drama
based on novel or book · Romance, Drama
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.