Movies Like Wild Oranges
If you liked Wild Oranges (1924), a drama and romance movie directed by King Vidor, 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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The Lighthouse (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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The Piano (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceWhen an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged…
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Nobody Has to Know (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceAfter a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with his deepest secret : they were in love.
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Safe Haven (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceA young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
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The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10Also dramaA jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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Maria's Lovers (1984)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceA World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.
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My Fault: London (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an…
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Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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The Beach (2000)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceTwenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romanceIt's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
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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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Cast Away (2000)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaChuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor…
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Castaway (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and dramaMiddle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. Young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him, but once on the island, things prove a…
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Summerland (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceA woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceTwo high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceTwo small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and…
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Empire of Light (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceThe duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.
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Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaZamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to…
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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.