Have you seen the 1984 animated "children's" version of "A Tale of Two Cities"?

@Jeruba I have not seen the film (though your question made me curious enough to do a little research), but I would say that, for films often considered to be for children, both The Black Cauldron and The Secret of NIHM have scenes and/or themes that are very disturbing, and not at all typical technicolour Disney-ish fare. I would add Watership Down to that list.

Reading the comments on the IMDB reviews page for the animated A Tale of Two Cities, it appears that this version is not meant for “children” so much as young adults:

“While A TALE OF TWO CITIES is shorter than it ought to be, it doesn’t water down its subject or take out any of the story’s rough edges (e.g. the endless march of the Revolution’s victims to the guillotine). It seems well cut out for the job of inspiring youthful readers to want to seek out the actual book themselves—or at least be a little more enthusiastic when assigned to it in school.”

Netflix suggestions are generated by an algorithm that takes into account your viewing history, your preferences, the viewing history of people with similar preferences, and the preferences of people with similar viewing histories. It’s not that the suggestions are considered similar to what you’ve just watched, but rather that they appeal to people who are thought to be relevantly similar to you.

They were not suggestions made to me, @SavoirFaire. They were suggestions associated with that particular DVD. Suggestions based on my viewing history are labeled as such and show specific titles that are supposedly similar in some way. “More like A Tale of Two Cities” is the language copied directly from the Netflix page. My viewing history is never going to bring up animated children’s films as a suggestion.

Ah, I see. That’s a different algorithm. Rather than explain it myself, I’ll let Hans Granqvist, senior algorithm engineer at Netflix, explain it in his own words.