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10 Best Movies Like The Governesses

If you loved The Governesses, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
All This, and Heaven Too

All This, and Heaven Too

1940★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Governesses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the vola...

#2
Persuasion

Persuasion

2022★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Governesses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent a...

#3
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1997★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Governesses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ...

#4
Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

2007★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Governesses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the wo...

#5
Firelight

Firelight

1998★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Governesses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child....

#6
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1996★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Governesses for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 ...

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