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Movies Like Their Eyes Were Watching God

If you liked Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), a drama and romance movie directed by Darnell Martin, 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.

  1. 1Nights in Rodanthe

    Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile with his estranged son, checks into an inn where she is staying.

  2. 2The Theory of Everything

    The Theory of Everything (2014)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance

    Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very…

  3. 3Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance

    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

  4. 4Love in the Time of Cholera

    Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years…

  5. 5A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun (1951)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

  6. 6Home for Christmas Day

    Home for Christmas Day (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also romance and drama

    Jane is a single mother dead set on protecting her teenage daughter Betsy from the harsh realities of life. When Betsy falls in love with an enlisted man, Jane tries her best to steer Betsy away from heartache. Little…

  7. 7Leave Her to Heaven

    Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

  8. 8They Won't Believe Me

    They Won't Believe Me (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    On 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.

  9. 9The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  10. 10The Sleeping Dictionary

    The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    In 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…

  11. 11All That Heaven Allows

    All That Heaven Allows (1955)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club…

  12. 12The Way We Were

    The Way We Were (1973)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their…

  13. 13The Wings of the Dove

    The Wings of the Dove (1997)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate…

  14. 14Persuasion

    Persuasion (1995)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening…

  15. 15Mansfield Park

    Mansfield Park (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford

  16. 16Gone with the Wind

    Gone with the Wind (1939)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama and romance

    The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

  17. 17Northanger Abbey

    Northanger Abbey (2007)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance and drama

    A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

  18. 18Flesh and the Devil

    Flesh and the Devil (1926)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is…

  19. 19Grand Hotel

    Grand Hotel (1932)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

  20. 20Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre (1996)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester…

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