20 best movies like Kathleen Mavourneen (1937)

List of the best movies like Kathleen Mavourneen (1937): Walking on Sunshine, Beloved, Les Misérables, Bride & Prejudice, Hairspray, Rhythm Serenade, The Phantom of the Opera, Absolute Beginners, Love Never Dies, Yentl.

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Italy
Duration01:33

Set to the music of popular hit songs from the 1980s. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the wedding. Unbeknownst to Maddie, however, Raf is Taylor's ex-holiday flame, and the love of her life...

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
Duration02:25

From Paris in the 1960s to London in the first decade of the third millennium, Madeleine and her daughter Véra flit from one amorous adventure to the next, living for the moment and taking all the opportunities that life offers. But not every love affair is without its consequences, its upsets and its disappointments. As time goes by and gnaws away at one’s deepest feelings, love becomes a harder game to play.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, military, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:38

    An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, India
    Duration01:51

    A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though circumstance and boorish opinions threaten to get in the way of romance.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:57

    Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:23

    Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:48

    A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, musical, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:01

    Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daaé. In a bid to win back her love, the Phantom lures Christine, her husband Raoul, and their young son Gustave from Manhattan, to the glittering and glorious world of Coney Island... they have no idea what lies in store for them... You truly haven’t experienced Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies until you see this spectacular new Australian production, filmed at Melbourne’s iconic Regent Theatre.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:12

    Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl's father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith -- so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:35

    Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:40

    Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia
    Duration02:05

    The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
    Duration02:45

    Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA

    Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, and nothing is ever the same for anyone in the Houseman family.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France

    During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryGermany, Spain, United Kingdom

    The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryPakistan

    The story of a Pakhtun girl who returns from Canada to attend her cousin's wedding in Swat, Pakistan and falls in love.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:25

    Ayan falls in love with his soulmate, Alizeh, but she doesn’t reciprocate the feeling. Later, a relationship with Saba helps him realize Alizeh’s value in his life, irrespective of their relationship status.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryIndia

    The life story of a girl named June from 16 years of her age until she turned 26, thereby giving an insight into those ten years of her life.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryNorway, United Kingdom, France, Republic of Ireland

    Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA

    Headstrong farmer Rosemary Muldoon has her heart set on winning her neighbour Anthony Reilly's love. The problem is, Anthony seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer. Stung by his father's plans to sell the family farm to his American nephew, Anthony is jolted into pursuing his dreams.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUSA

    A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, musical, family
    CountryIndia

    ‘Power’ Paandi, once a legendary stunt master who ruled the world of film stunts in his prime years is now content in living a peaceful life with his son and grandchildren. But he soon realizes that his acts that he thinks is normal and righteous, constantly irks his son who seems to taking their relationship for granted. One such overblown tiff with his son drives him to go do some soul searching, the outcome of which has many unexpected experiences.




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