Films like The Manxman
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
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The Piano
Film · 1993 · also drama and romanceWhen an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills...
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The Shipping News
Film · 2001 · also drama and romanceAn emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Film · 1999 · also drama and romanceIn the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea. For Ishmael, a local reporter, the trial strikes a deep emotional chord when he...
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God's Creatures
Film · 2022 · also dramaIn a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family...
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Clash by Night
Film · 1952 · also drama and romanceAn embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
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Brief Encounter
Film · 1945 · also drama and romanceReturning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harve...
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The Fugitive Kind
Film · 1960 · also drama and romanceVal Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val i...
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All of You
Film · 2025 · also drama and romanceLaura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explo...
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Madame Bovary
Film · 1949 · also drama and romanceIn 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragi...
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Black Bear
Film · 2020 · also dramaAt a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a cal...
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