Movies like The Painted Veil
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The Painted Veil (2006)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, USA, Canada
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, melancholic, romantic, atmospheric, sad, breathtaking, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, marriage, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, love story, extramarital affair, adultery, couples, cholera, love, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, lovers, epidemic, doctor, tragedy, life & death, culture clash, adaptation, husband wife relationship, infirmary, destiny, society ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 19th century, 20s
Place:
china, shanghai, london, africa, england, asia, shanghai china
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Most similar movies to The Painted Veil
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, romantic, emotional and serious films with plots about love, couples, love story, love and romance, destiny, storytelling and beautiful scenery mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Painted Veil: Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), The Great Gatsby (2013), The Sleeping Dictionary (2003), The Piano (1993), The Light Between Oceans (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
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sexy, psychological, romantic, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
love, letter, impossible love, love triangle, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, visceral, multiple storylines, justice, funeral, diary ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1890s, 1870s, post world war one ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style:
stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, love triangle, high society, love story, social differences, loneliness, millionaire, love and romance, rags to riches, unfulfilled love, destructive relationship, love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, fairy tale, erotic, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
forbidden love, love story, interracial romance, jungle, stereotypes, culture clash, opposites attract, husband wife relationship, love and romance, love, mentor, love affair ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, ireland, borneo, malaysia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
91K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sexy, sexual, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
piano, love triangle, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, desire, love and romance, love affair, human nature, couple relations, arranged marriage, couples ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 18th century
Place:
new zealand, oceania, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style:
touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, chick flick, date night
Plot:
lighthouse, love, lighthouse keeper, missing child, husband wife relationship, island, mother love, trying to get pregnant, isolation, adaptation, motherhood, miscarriage ...
Time:
1920s, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Me Before You
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, temptation, love story, relationships, love and romance, old love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, unfaithful husband, love, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, paris france, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, sexy, talky, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
countryside, couples, couple relations, looking for love, victorian england, english countryside, love story, love and romance, love affair, dishonesty, relationships, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style:
romantic, touching, sad, feel good, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
photographer, adultery, love affair, impossible love, love story, housewife, fall in love, relationships, love, infidelity, middle aged, couples ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two, 80s, year 1965, year 1987 ...
Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, tourist, love, marriage, character study, dishonesty, fall in love, couples, love and romance, wedding, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1920s, 21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east, africa, cairo egypt, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
colonialism, love story, infidelity, writers, love and romance, love, lion, adaptation, unlikely friendships, mentor, love affair, destructive relationship ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 19th century, victorian era, 1930s ...
Place:
africa, kenya, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Notebook similar movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, vineyard, parents and children, pretend relationship, wine, family relations, love story, world war two, estate ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
China in the 1920s. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, intense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
feminism, intrigue, jealousy, wealth, insanity, polygamy, arranged marriage, women, mistress, dignity, tragic event, teenage girl ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
china, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Style:
romantic, sexy, emotional, dramatic, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, duchess, love affair, aristocracy, love story, infidelity, duke, adultery, marriage, royalty, high society, marital rape ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era, middle ages ...
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Style:
touching, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
high society, love triangle, countess, marriage, infidelity, forbidden love, aristocracy, lawyer, love, destiny, love and romance, lovers ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, paris france, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Style:
sexy, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, beautiful scenery, cheating wife, age difference, love, death, loneliness, love story, life philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Pride & Prejudice
583K
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, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love story, love and romance, fall in love, love, true love, power of love, youth, love triangle, love of one's life, young lovers, love affair, lovers reunited ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 90s
Place:
south carolina, canada, north carolina, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The passionate affair of a young woman trapped in a marriage of convenience unleashes a maelstrom of murder and mayhem on a country estate.
Style:
psychological, cynical, depressing, philosophical, feminist film ...
Plot:
forbidden love, father in law, cruelty, secret lover, sex scene, marriage of convenience, father in law daughter in law relationship, english countryside, neglectful husband, male nudity, forced marriage, adultery ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 1865
Place:
england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
90K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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 meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style:
touching, romantic, gothic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
love, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, social differences, fall in love, young woman, unlikely couple, family secret, older man younger woman relationship, estate, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 70s, edwardian era, 1840s
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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157K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, best friends in love, friendship, male female friendship, couples, love story, ambition, opposites attract, introspection, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
285K
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, sad, heartbreaking, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, redemption, injustice, love story, tragic love, unfulfilled love, war, love and romance, forbidden love, love, false accusation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, post world war two, victorian era, 50s ...
Place:
england, dunkirk, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Movies similar to The Vow
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
naval officer, mccarthyism, love story, couples, love and romance, adultery, friendship, jewish, writers, politics, young lovers, college ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1930s, 70s, year 1944 ...
Place:
usa, new york, california, washington d.c., malibu california ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
abortion, orphan, coming of age, adoption, mentor protege relationship, mentor, justice, premarital sex, love triangle, childhood, self discovery, incest ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, england, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
emotional, touching, romantic, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, strong sexual content, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style:
romantic, dramatic, captivating, sweet, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, aristocracy, initially antagonists, unlikely couple, wooing, gentleman, social differences ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era ...
Place:
england, britain, london, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
145K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
immigrants, starting over, love and romance, fashion, love triangle, friendship, female protagonist, irish, immigration, love, working class, true love ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style:
sexual, sexy, disturbing, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, housewife, love affair, small town, sexual pleasure, extramarital affair, cheating wife, dysfunctional family, suburbs, strong sexual content, parenthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, boston, usa
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80%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
Style:
serious, stylized, suspenseful, atmospheric, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
widow, blackmail, infidelity, refugee, vacation, destructive relationship, fall in love, couples, false accusation, dishonesty, seduction, loveless marriage ...
Time:
1930s, 19th century, 20th century, year 1938, pre world war two
Place:
italy, england, florence, europe, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Style:
realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot:
love triangle, colonialism, extramarital affair, british empire, self discovery, interracial relations, prince, flashback, orgasm, scandal, breaking the fourth wall, post colonialism ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, asia, kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Style:
twist ending, sad, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
loss, anguish, christmas, group therapy, death, grief, love, solitude, life & death, redemption, tragedy, justice ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for ...
Style:
romantic, scenic, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
beautiful scenery, countryside, fall in love, social differences, human nature, sea, society, sea disaster, love, love story, prejudice, life philosophy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place:
england, wales, poland, cornwall, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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