Movies like Romeo and Juliet
12 films like Romeo and Juliet (1936), Marie Antoinette, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities among them. They're picked by what the story is about and what each shares with Romeo and Juliet: its director, cast, franchise or setting.
1936 · 125 min · Drama, Romance. The 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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Marie Antoinette
Also stars Norma Shearer and John BarrymoreThe 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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David Copperfield
Also directed by George Cukor · Also stars Edna May OliverA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Also stars Edna May OliverA pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
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The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Also stars Norma ShearerIn 1845 London, the Barrett family is ruled with an iron fist by its stern widowed patriarch, Edward Moulton-Barrett. His nine grown children are afraid of him more than they love him. One of his rules is that none of his children are…
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Smilin' Through
Also drama and romanceJohn 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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No More Ladies
Also romanceA society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.
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Gone with the Wind
Also drama and romanceA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
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Anna Karenina
Also drama and romanceThe married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.
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Conquest
Also dramaA 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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A Woman's Face
Also directed by George CukorA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
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Unconquered
Also dramaIntrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
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A Free Soul
Also stars Norma Shearer and Leslie HowardAn alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
