Movies Like When the Brave Cry
If you liked When the Brave Cry (1947), a drama and romance movie directed by Ismael Rodríguez, 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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Tear This Heart Out (2008)
★ 7.9/10Also romance and dramaA young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one…
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Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceTita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through…
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Viva Cuba (2005)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceThe friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and…
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Until the End of the World (2026)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaManuel's life is upended when Esmeralda, his lost love from 15 years ago, calls unexpectedly. Despite being set to marry another, he rediscovers Esmeralda, and they realize their love transcends time.
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The Honorary Consul (1983)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and romanceSet in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people…
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Wings (1927)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the…
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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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The Lucky One (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceA Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.
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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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Wuthering Heights (1939)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceYoung orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond…
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Enamorada (1946)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and romanceIn Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, General Reyes falls for beautiful and wild…
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Angel and the Badman (1947)
★ 6.4/10Also romanceA wounded outlaw finds unexpected mercy in the care of a rancher's daughter. The hope of love pulls him toward a different life until the law, and his violent past, close in on his new home. Now he must choose the kind…
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Sylvie's Love (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and dramaWhen a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
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Desire (2017)
★ 6/10Also romance and dramaLucía and Ofelia, two sisters, finally meet after 7 years of cold relationships upon Lucia 's wedding. But when Juan, Lucia's husband, and Ofelia meet, they feel like a disruptive fantasy have enchanted their minds and…
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The Age of Adaline (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also romance and dramaAfter 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.
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The Choice (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceTravis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceZack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an…
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and dramaSarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live…
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceBeautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceBathsheba Everdine, a willful and flirtatious young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.