Movies Like Lady of the Tropics
If you liked Lady of the Tropics (1939), a romance and drama movie directed by Jack Conway, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Red Dust (1932)
★ 6.9/10Also romance and dramaDennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.
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Past Lives (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romanceAfter decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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Brooklyn (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceIn 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceIn 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 to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceWhen Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with…
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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Belle (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaDido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
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They Won't Believe Me (1947)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceOn trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
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A Ring of Endless Light (2002)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and dramaWhen 15-year-old Vicky Austin, her sister Suzy and little brother Rob visit their grandfather on Seven Bay Island, Vicky faces several unexpected challenges. Her beloved grandfather, retired Reverend Eaton, seems to be…
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The Lost Husband (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceTrying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
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Goodbye Again (1961)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceMiddle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a…
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Flamingo Road (1949)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceA stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
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I Can't Think Straight (2008)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceTala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla…
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceWhen his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
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Sayonara (1957)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceAir Force Major Lloyd Gruver is reassigned to a Japanese air base and is confronted with US racial prejudice against the Japanese people. The issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically…
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Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2016)
★ 6/10Also romanceRuby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.
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Jezebel (1938)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceIn 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
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Pocahontas (1995)
★ 6.9/10Also romancePocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceA socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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Here (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAn odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.