20 best movies like The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

List of the best movies like The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004): Farewell, My Queen, Battle of the Brave, Les Misérables, Tess, A Tale of Two Cities, Titanic, Serena, Walking with the Enemy, The Princess of Montpensier, Far from the Madding Crowd.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryFrance, Spain
Duration01:40

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
CountryCanada, United Kingdom, France

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

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: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration03:06

    A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:57

    British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the unsinkable Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryCzech Republic, France, USA
    Duration01:49

    North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
    CountryRomania, Hungary, Canada, USA

    Regent Horthy is the leader of Hungary and a German ally, but his favorable standing with Hitler changes as the war comes to an end. Forced to cede Hungary’s power or else witness the execution of his son, Regent Horthy gives up control of his country to the Nazis, who quickly move Hungarians to ghettos and death camps, with no hope in sight. But the despair changes when a young man named Elek emerges. Separated from his family during the relocations and aided by the woman he loves , Elek defies the enemy by becoming one of them. In a race against time, disguised as a Nazi Officer he embarks on a mission to save his family and thousands of his countrymen.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryFrance, Germany
    Duration02:19

    Set in the high courts of 16th Century France, where the wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants are raging. Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, is in love with Henri de Guise, but her hand in marriage is promised to the Prince of Montpensier.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:48

    Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:31

    The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountrySpain, Italy, Portugal, France
    Duration01:57

    The love story who transformed Juana I de Castilla, Queen of Spain, into Juana "The mad". The tragic fate of a Queen madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Austria
    Duration01:55

    Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand
    Duration02:55

      Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryItaly, Morocco, USA
      Duration01:33

      When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes it hard. He allies himself with Iago, who has his own grudge against Othello, and the two conspire to bring Othello down. When their first plan, to have him accused of witchcraft, fails, they plant evidence intended to make him believe Desdemona is unfaithful.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountrySpain, Romania, Russia, France
      Duration01:57

      Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France, USA
      Duration01:53

      Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryFrance, Italy, Germany
      Duration02:39

      The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:33

      Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, New Zealand
      Duration02:12

      The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:57

      An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:58

      The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryChina, France
      Duration02:20

      Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrecomedy, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration02:00

      Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem - the union seems embarrassed to receive their support. However the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village of Onllwyn, in the Dulais Valley in Wales, and later set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, France, USA
      Duration01:45

      A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, history
      CountrySpain

      Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, history
      CountryFrance, Germany
      Duration02:02

      In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUSA, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom
      Duration02:28

      In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:38

      A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:04

      An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:50

      By miracle he avoided death and returns to the house where he was born. In the house now lives the love of his life. But the hope for happiness turns sour with a terrible discovery: his beloved is the daughter of his enemy.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:43

      A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama
      CountryDenmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA

      Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Duncan Mayor decides the perfect Christmas present for his terminally ill wife, Suzy, is a ride on a real Ferris wheel, set up in their very own back yard. As a young man, it was the perfect place for a wedding proposal. Now, years later, in order to relive the experience with his wife, Duncan will go to any length to make their fantasy become a reality.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, melodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:32

      September 1941. In a turn of events young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board of a barge that will evacuate people from sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the storm. When it starts sinking, enemy planes - but not rescuers - are the first to arrive at the scene.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:27

      A prison story. Father Jack finds love with a male guard in the prison. Some of the other inmates suspect he's been sentenced for paedophilia.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:43

      A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom
      Duration02:11

      A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:39

      In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:55

      A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:03

      In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:05

      A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genredrama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Luxembourg
      Duration02:28

      Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Netherlands
      Duration01:37

      Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, history
      CountryUSA, India, United Kingdom

      Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genredrama, western
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
      Duration02:36

      An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy, France
      Duration01:49

      David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom
      Duration02:11

      A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:57

      A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration02:53

      Titanic is a made-for-TV dramatization that premiered as a 2-part miniseries on CBS in 1996. Titanic follows several characters on board the RMS Titanic when she sinks on her maiden voyage in 1912. The miniseries was directed by Robert Lieberman. The original music score was composed by Lennie Niehaus. This is the first Titanic movie to show the ship breaking in two.




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