Movies like The Painted Veil

If you like "The Painted Veil" you are looking for touching, emotional and scenic movies about / with infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story and couples themes of Drama and Romance genre shot in China or Canada.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Painted Veil (2006)
 7.4
 96K
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, melancholic, costume drama, romantic, period piece, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife, doctor, love, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, epidemic, lovers, tragedy, life & death, culture clash, adaptation, medical, husband wife relationship, infirmary ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 50s, 19th century, 20s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia, england, shanghai china
Keyword: doctors, chinese, candy, french, reading, challenge, change

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to The Painted Veil

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, romantic and touching films with plots about love, love and romance, love story, couples, marriage, passion and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Painted Veil: Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), Cairo Time (2009), The Duchess (2008), The Sleeping Dictionary (2003), The Piano (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
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 ...
Style: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, new love, love, letter, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, multiple storylines, justice, visceral, epidemic, diary ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 7K
Cairo Time (2009)
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, heartbreaking, romantic, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, tourist, love, marriage, character study, fall in love, dishonesty, couples, love and romance, passion, love affair, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, cairo egypt, middle east, africa, alexandria egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 87K
The Duchess (2008)
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, costume drama, sexy, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: royalty, love story, duchess, love triangle, love affair, aristocracy, duke, infidelity, adultery, high society, marriage, nobility ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, middle ages, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
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, erotic, scenic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love story, forbidden love, interracial romance, jungle, love, stereotypes, culture clash, opposites attract, husband wife relationship, love and romance, mentor, impossible love ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: borneo, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Movie in collections
love story movies
6367
scenic movies
1754
china movies
1517
couples movies
13883
 7.5
 95K
The Piano (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
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: period piece, psychological, sexual, scenic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, love triangle, human nature, mother daughter relationship, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
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, melancholic, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: lighthouse, love, lighthouse keeper, island, husband wife relationship, adoption, trying to get pregnant, miscarriage, missing child, mother love, isolation, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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%
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
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: visually stunning, depressing, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Plot: intrigue, polygamy, feminism, jealousy, wealth, insanity, teenage girl, women, mistress, massage, feminist, tragic event ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: china, tibet, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
The Great Gatsby (2013)
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, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, high society, social differences, love triangle, loneliness, love story, millionaire, unfulfilled love, love and romance, love, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 90s, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
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, heartbreaking, atmospheric, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adultery, photographer, relationships, love affair, impossible love, love story, photography, housewife, passion, infidelity, couples, middle aged ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 20th century, 80s, post world war two ...
Place: iowa, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.5
 51K
Last Night (2010)
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, heartbreaking, sentimental, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, relationships, unfaithful husband, love and romance, old love, unfaithful wife, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
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, period piece, emotional, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, looking for love, love story, victorian england, english countryside, love and romance, relationships, love affair, dishonesty, countryside, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Heat and Dust (1983)
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, romantic drama, historical drama, costume drama, contemplative ...
Plot: love triangle, colonialism, jazz, indian woman, british empire, extramarital affair, self discovery, interracial relations, prince, flashback, orgasm, scandal ...
Time: 1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: india, asia, kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
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, costume drama, sweet, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, strong female character, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, unlikely couple, pride ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, 1790s ...
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Age of Innocence (1993)
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, costume drama, atmospheric, stylized, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: high society, countess, marriage, infidelity, lovers, aristocracy, forbidden love, love triangle, lawyer, love, destiny, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1993, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, america, philadelphia, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
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 ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place: sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
64%
 7.0
 165K
One Day (2011)
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: sentimental, romantic, sad, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, best friends in love, friendship, male female friendship, couples, ambition, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, divorce ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: iran, scotland, paris france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
Water for Elephants (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.
Style: romantic, emotional, sexy, touching, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: circus, forbidden love, love story, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, couple relations, lovers, performer's life, couples, abusive husband, artists and showbiz, older woman younger man ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 50s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: usa
⇓ 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 ⇓
73%
The Way We Were (1973)
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: date night, girls' night
Plot: mccarthyism, naval officer, couples, politics, breakup, husband wife relationship, adultery, love story, passion, world war two, love and romance, friendship ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, 1950s, pre world war two ...
Place: usa, new york, california, middle east, malibu california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
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, touching, realistic, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, vineyard, pretend relationship, wine, parents and children, world war two, love story, estate, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 90s, post world war two
Place: san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Cider House Rules (1999)
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: date night, teens, kids
Plot: abortion, orphan, coming of age, adoption, mentor protege relationship, justice, premarital sex, love triangle, incest, childhood, self discovery, sick child ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 90s, year 1999, 1930s ...
Place: maine, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Movie in collections
love movies
14399
romantic movies
6864
 6.8
 27K
Lady Macbeth (2016)
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, costume drama, depressing, historical drama ...
Plot: forbidden love, secret lover, sex scene, infidelity, cruelty, adultery, father in law daughter in law relationship, loveless marriage, english countryside, male nudity, neglectful husband, horse ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 1865
Place: england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Anna Karenina (1997)
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: costume drama, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, cheating wife, age difference, death, love, true love, american civil war, russian woman, women ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1880s
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 210K
Blue Valentine (2010)
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: touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.5
 116K
Little Children (2006)
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, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love affair, housewife, sex, small town, sexual pleasure, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, parenthood ...
Time: year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style: sentimental, romantic, stylized, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, love and romance, orphan, young woman, mentor ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.3
 93K
Jane Eyre (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, 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: romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, social differences, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, family secret, older man younger woman relationship, master and servant, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1800s, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.9
 1.3M
Titanic (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 194 min.
Story: 84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style: romantic, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, titanic, disaster, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, ocean, love and romance, survival, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 1997, 90s, edwardian era ...
Place: britain, iran, los angeles, america, nova scotia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie