Movies like Sense and Sensibility (2026)

Name: Sense and Sensibility
Released: 2026

10 films to watch after Sense and Sensibility, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

A charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood.

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Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Fit 72%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.
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Howards End (1992)

Fit 70%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

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 working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
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The Age of Innocence (1993)

Fit 69%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

Fit 68%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

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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Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Fit 62%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
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Jane Eyre (1996)

Fit 59%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

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. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)

Fit 54%

Shares Romance and Drama with Sense and Sensibility.

An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
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The Heiress (1949)

Fit 53%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

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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Tess (1979)

Fit 53%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.
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Me Before You (2016)

Fit 47%

Shares Drama and Romance with Sense and Sensibility.

Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.