Movies like Marie Antoinette
12 films like Marie Antoinette (1938), The Women, Smilin' Through, Mary of Scotland among them. They're picked by what the story is about and what each shares with Marie Antoinette: its director, cast, franchise or setting.
1938 · 149 min · Biography, Drama, History. The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would…
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The Women
Also stars Norma ShearerA study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.
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Smilin' Through
Also dramaJohn has lead a solitary life for thirty years since the death of Moonyeen Clare. But now Owens, a close friend, insists that he care for his niece, Kathleen, orphaned when her parents were lost at sea. Kathleen is five, but the years…
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Mary of Scotland
Also biography and dramaThe recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
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Anthony Adverse
Also dramaIn late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. However, she is in love with another, younger man. When the husband finds out, he kills the lover in a swordfight, and takes his…
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Northwest Passage
Also directed by W.S. Van DykeLangdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
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Romeo and Juliet
Also stars Norma Shearer and John BarrymoreThe Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of Verona, hate each other. Romeo, son of Montague, crashes a Capulet party, and there meets Juliet, daughter of Capulet. They fall passionately in love. Since their families would…
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Reunion in France
Also dramaIn German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
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Suez
Also dramaFerdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
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Conquest
Also drama and historyA Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Also biography and dramaFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
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Rasputin and the Empress
Also biography and dramaA prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.
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A Woman's Face
Also dramaA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
