Films like The Painted Veil

10 to watch next

1. 1

   Love in the Time of Cholera

   Film · 2007 · also drama and romance

   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 dismi...

   Films like Love in the Time of Cholera →
2. 2

   Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

   Film · 1955 · also drama and romance

   A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.

   Films like Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing →
3. 3

   The Left Hand of God

   Film · 1955 · also drama

   A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfort...

   Films like The Left Hand of God →
4. 4

   Love Story

   Film · 1970 · also drama and romance

   Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite back...

   Films like Love Story →
5. 5

   The Sleeping Dictionary

   Film · 2003 · also drama and romance

   In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced...

   Films like The Sleeping Dictionary →
6. 6

   Anna Karenina

   Film · 1997 · also drama and romance

   In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediat...

   Films like Anna Karenina →
7. 7

   Safe Haven

   Film · 2013 · also romance

   A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

   Films like Safe Haven →
8. 8

   Doctor Zhivago

   Film · 1965 · also drama and romance

   The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and...

   Films like Doctor Zhivago →
9. 9

   Black Narcissus

   Film · 1947 · also drama

   A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palac...

   Films like Black Narcissus →
10. 10

    The Nun's Story

    Film · 1959 · also drama

    After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

    Films like The Nun's Story →