Movies Like New Biography of Xishi
If you liked New Biography of Xishi (2024), a history and romance movie directed by Dai Yilin, 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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Frequencies (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and mysteryThe story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.
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Flower Shop Mystery: Mum's the Word (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and romanceAbby Knight, a former lawyer turned proud flower shop owner is starting over after the death of her husband with the support from her father, a new business and her daughter off to college. Life is good in the peaceful…
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Rebecca (1940)
★ 7.9/10Also mystery and romanceStory of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips…
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Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and romanceAbby Knight, ex-lawyer and crime buff, and the owner of Bloomers Flower Shop, is having a week to be reckoned with. A reluctant bridesmaid at her drama queen cousin’s wedding, Abby ends up not just doing the…
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Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and romanceRaimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for…
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Young and Innocent (1937)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and mysteryWhen a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
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Shuffle (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and romanceLovell Milo is a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s…
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Cold Mountain (2003)
★ 6.9/10Also history and romanceIn 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…
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Debbie Macomber's Dashing Through The Snow (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and romanceStranded at an airport at Christmastime, Ashley Harrison accepts a ride from Dash Sutherland, who has just rented the last car in town. As the pair heads north, their adventures include car trouble, adopting a puppy…
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Ironclad (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and historyIn the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself…
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The Pride and the Passion (1957)
★ 6/10Also history and romanceDuring the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to…
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Helen of Troy (1956)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and historyPrince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions…
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Vertigo (1958)
★ 8.1/10Also mystery and romanceA retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Secret Agent (1936)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and romanceDuring World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric…
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Dead Again (1991)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and romanceIn 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.
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The Morning After (1986)
★ 6/10Also mystery and romanceFailed actress Alex Sternbergen wakes up hungover one morning in an apartment she does not recognize, unable to remember the previous evening -- and with a dead body in bed next to her. As she tries to piece together…
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The Moon-Spinners (1964)
★ 5.9/10Also mystery and romanceYoung English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently…
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The Irresistible Blueberry Farm (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and mysteryEllen Branford, a high-powered attorney, finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life when she sets off on a journey to fulfill her grandmother’s dying wish – to find the hometown boy she once loved and give…
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and romanceWhen a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling…
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Vanilla Sky (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also mystery and romanceDavid Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his…