recommendations - Falling for a Dancer (1998) Discussion

[–] beclitz 17 years ago

If you liked this, you would probably enjoy Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, both of which are movies made from novels both written by Jane Austen. They're very good and have a similar plot to this movie. ENJOY! :-)

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[–] berdahl80-1 17 years ago

Rent "North & South" (a BBC miniseries). Takes place in England in the mid 1800s. Same "he's a good guy, but it takes her forever to see it" theme. By the end you REALLY want them to get together.

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[–] elvadogg 16 years ago

I totally agree with the "North and South" recommendation !
And if you liked the plot of a girl getting pregnant out of wedlock and therefore has to marry a total stranger I highly recommend "The Magic of Ordinary Days" with Skeet Ulrich and Keri Russel.

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[–] genie-49 16 years ago

I have just seen this film and have subsequently watched it another 5 times. Love it. Although, North and South is my favorite of all all time, this comes zooming to the top 2 or 3. I loved Lorna Doone and am not sure between FFAD and Lorna Doone which is the best for me.

I know the person that asked about recommendations is long gone, but I am a great fan of British Period Drama and haven't missed too many in my 60+years.

I would suggest Firelight (wish I could buy it here in the states) but at least it's rent-able online.

I love all of the Catherine Cookson novels that were made into film with the exception of one. None of them can quite compare to FFAD but can come close.

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[–] JZBurnett 16 years ago

Circle of friends with Minnie Driver is set in Ireland and deals with friends and betrayal - Its quite good and easy watching.

The Magdalene Sisters is a brilliant film and shows what could have happened if she had not married.

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[–] summerlagoon292 14 years ago

YES! Totally "The Magic of Ordinary Days"!
I was acctually on the other side, I had loved That movie and was looking for another one like it, and eventually I came across "Falling For a Dancer"!!
Love both of them!

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[–] kanders74 14 years ago

I realize it's been several years since you first posted, but oh well....if you liked this movie you may also like "The Tide of Life" based upon the novel by Catherine Cookson. A melodramatic tear jerker about a young heroine, you'll love it!!

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[–] Cine-Verite 14 years ago

Ballykissangel

Monarch of the Glen

Lark Rise to Candleford

Enjoy!

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[–] sherebdan 13 years ago

Totally agree with all the recommendations. I would add "Little Dorrit" with Matthew MacFayden and the new BBC miniseries "Downton Abbey."

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[–] HombreOfAnotherEra 12 years ago

downton abbey is a rock on mighty show!

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[–] emuir-1 10 years ago

If you are looking for films about Ireland, I can recommend:

The Playboys, a comedy drama starring Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright, Albert Finney and Milo O'Shea, which involves a young unmarried mother who scandalizes her village by refusing to name the father of the baby or get married for the sake of propriety. Things come to a head when a rag tag bunch of traveling actors led by actor/manager Milo O'Shea arrives to give nightly performances in a tent. What they perform depends on who is sober enough and what costumes are not in pawn. The song and dance version of Gone With the Wind mixed tith scns from Othello is just hysterically funny.

Widows Peak, another unmarried mother story starring Mia Farrow and Joan Plowright and set in narrow a minded Irish village.

The Field, a dark drama starring Richard harris as an embittered old tenant farmer in 1920's Ireland who has spent his life, as his father and grandfather did before them, hauling seaweed up a cliff to fertilize a piece of rocky land and turn it into pasture. After his dimwitted son, Sean Bean, upsets the landlady with a prank, she sells the field to an Irish American which triggers off tragic events.

The Man who went up a Hill and Came down a Mountain, with Hugh Grant and Tara Fitzgerald. A comedy in which a small village attempts to be put on the map by naming local hill as a mountain.

Michale Collins, a with Liam Neeson and Alan Rickman. The biography of one of the leaders of the 1916 rebellion against British rule.

The Wind that shakes the Barley. Cillian Murphy as a medical student unwittingly caught up in the Irish rebellion.

And of course, Ballykissnagel a TV series.

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