Movies like The English Patient

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The English Patient (1996)
 7.4
 199K
The English Patient (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking, sexy, erotic, scenic, epic, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love, mysterious character, love and romance, passion, sex scene, nurse, patient, tragedy, doomed love, nurse patient relationship, loss of loved one, dying, obsession, loneliness ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 1930s, year 1944, 90s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, egypt, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, south africa ...
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Most similar movies to The English Patient

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, romantic and romantic drama films with plots about love, love and romance, fall in love, love story, couples, death and passion mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The English Patient: Wuthering Heights (1992), The End of the Affair (1999), Atonement (2007), The Edge of Love (2008), Onegin (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wuthering Heights (1992)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style: gothic, romantic, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: obsession, tragic love, forbidden love, social differences, passion, revenge, master and servant, betrayal, haunted by the past, love, love story, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, regency period, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place: britain, england, europe
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100%
The End of the Affair (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his ...
Style: romantic, erotic, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, obsessive love, obsession, infidelity, jealousy, love affair, private detective, passion, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.8
 298K
Atonement (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style: touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sad, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, wartime, tragic love, redemption, injustice, unfulfilled love, love story, false accusation, love and romance, forbidden love, innocence, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 2007, 2000s, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, dunkirk, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Edge of Love (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, marriage, husband wife relationship, jealousy, infidelity, writers, pregnancy, world war two, unfulfillment, love, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008
Place: wales, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet ...
Style: sexy, sensual, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: infidelity, sex, passion, adultery, photography, waitress, female nudity, love triangle, menage a trois, sexual promiscuity, voyeurism, existentialism ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: central europe, czechoslovakia, geneva switzerland, switzerland, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 8K
Onegin (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style: atmospheric, period piece, romantic, costume drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, forbidden love, tragic love, marriage, unrequited love, book, obsession, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, poetry, inheritance ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1800s, year 1999, victorian era
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 258K
The Reader (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, touching, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, holocaust, nazi, first love, older woman younger man sex, secret, trial, world war two, sexuality ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, year 1980, year 1958, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 3K
Strayed (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that ...
Style: sincere, touching, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, world war two, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man, occupied france, wartime life, male nudity, refugee, survival, friendship, teenage life, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2003
Place: paris france, france, europe, riviera, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Legends of the Fall (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: An epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Style: emotional, sincere, serious, scenic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: world war one, love triangle, lovers, conflict, relationships, love, sibling relationship, native american, father son relationship, love story, death, vengeance ...
Time: 19th century, 1910s, 1920s, 1900s, year 1995 ...
Place: america, usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.0
 17K
Dying Young (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sad, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love story, life & death, leukemia, love, beautiful scenery, doctor, human nature, unfulfillment, parents and children, social differences, women ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 86K
Out of Africa (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by Karen Blixen from 1937.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, period piece, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: love story, colonialism, infidelity, writers, love and romance, love, mentor, unlikely friendships, adaptation, love affair, fall in love, destructive relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century, victorian era, year 1985 ...
Place: africa, kenya, south africa, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Map of the Human Heart (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, UK, Canada, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his childhood love, a Metis girl, but finds that their cultures are the ...
Style: romantic, realistic, emotional, touching, retro ...
Plot: world war two, love, friendship, destiny, bittersweet, runaway, loneliness, hospital, love hurts, wilderness, indigenous people, time travel ...
Time: 1940s, year 1992, 1930s, 90s, 60s ...
Place: canada, england, germany, london, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style: emotional, realistic, romantic, period piece, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, war, fall in love, wartime life, occupied france, nazi occupied france, adultery, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, ancient times, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
Style: romantic, touching, atmospheric, epic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war one, war, love and romance, wartime, life & death, private detective, investigation, obsession, tragedy, relationships, lighthouse, against the odds ...
Time: 2000s, 1920s, year 2004, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille, brittany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.2
 350K
Pearl Harbor (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
Story: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, epic, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: world war two, war, love, military, combat, airplane, love triangle, navy, fighter pilot, wartime, aviation, love and romance ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, 50s, 20th century, year 1942 ...
Place: hawaii, pearl harbor, japan, asia, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.5
 16K
Sunshine (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Germany, Canada, Austria, France, UK, USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his ...
Style: costume drama, erotic, family saga, sad, saga ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, fascism, sex scene, nazi, anti semitism, society, political unrest, siblings relations, family life, politics, revolution ...
Time: 19th century, 1940s, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, eastern europe, israel, serbia, sarajevo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.
Style: touching, romantic, exciting, fairy tale, costume drama ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: medieval, love affair, love story, knight, forbidden love, true love, king, tragic love, sword and shield, legends and myths, star crossed lovers, betrayal ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 6th century, 2000s, 50s ...
Place: ireland, cornwall, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.8
 615K
The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love and romance, love, fall in love, true love, youth, memory loss, love of one's life, power of love, love triangle, young lovers, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 50s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, iran, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.9
 82K
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, emotional, visual, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war one, revolution, communism, war, wartime, train, rape, love triangle, poet, communist, imperial russia, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s, 1940s, year 1965 ...
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.5
 45K
Lust, Caution (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Taiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 157 min.
Story: During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
Style: sexual, disturbing, sexy, erotic, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, erotica, forbidden love, adultery, sensuality, lust, sex scene, extramarital affair, strong sexual content, seduction, japanese occupation of china, female nudity ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 2000s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: asia, hong kong, china, japan, shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 1K
The Midwife (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 'The Midwife' (fin.'Kätilö') is a romance-drama set during WWII in Finland’s Lapland province, a major European battle ground of the war. Based on Katja Kettu’s bestselling novel, 'The Midwife' turns on the love ...
Style: romantic, touching, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: world war two, ss officer, love, midwife, fall in love, genocide, war crime, torture, sex scene, violence, drug, nurse ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 155K
Cold Mountain (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story: In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style: romantic, sincere, serious, period piece, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: american civil war, love story, survival, civil war, tragic love, war, loss of family member, wartime, getting home, slavery, loss of loved one, military ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, year 2003 ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, usa, america, ancient greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 7.4
 111K
Malena (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hot and sexy, world war two, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, older woman younger man, wartime, longing, unrequited love, women, sexuality, life is a bitch, fascism ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, ancient times, 20th century, year 1940
Place: italy, sicily, europe, southern italy, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 15K
The Exception (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, nazi germany, gestapo, nazi officer, german soldier, nazi occupation, nazi, espionage, royalty, conspiracy, spy, german army ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1934, 1920s
Place: germany, berlin germany, poland, netherlands, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style: emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay romance, gay relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, love story, gays and lesbians, gay slur, gay interest, first gay sexual experience ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, year 2005, 80s, 20th century ...
Place: wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Director Franco Zeffirelli's beloved version of one of the most well-known love stories in the English language. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young ...
Style: romantic, sweet, colorful, period piece, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: forbidden love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, fall in love, family feud, love story, medieval, unfulfillment, true love, love, star crossed lovers ...
Time: year 1968, 1900s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The White Countess (2005)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany, China, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, atmospheric, period piece ...
Plot: blindness, love story, couples, friendship, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, unlikely couple, world war two, politics, intrigue, women ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1937, year 1936 ...
Place: china, shanghai, asia, hong kong, macau
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, tragicomedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, nazi, human spirit, life & death, life philosophy, self sacrifice, nazism, fascism, war, courage ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century, 90s, 1930s ...
Place: italy, europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 29K
Beyond Borders (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: charity, unfaithful wife, un, war, abroad, love, brutality, corruption, survival, starvation, surgery, life & death ...
Time: 80s, year 2003, 90s, year 1988, year 1989 ...
Place: africa, cambodia, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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