Movies Like Piccolo mondo antico
If you liked Piccolo mondo antico (1941), a drama and romance movie directed by Mario Soldati, 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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Mayerling (1968)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceCrown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country…
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The Heiress (1949)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and romanceIn 1840s New York, the uneventful and boring days of the daughter of a wealthy doctor come to an end when she meets a dashing poorer man — who may or may not be after her inheritance.
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“Wuthering Heights” (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaTragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.
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Original Sin (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
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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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Radioactive (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceThe story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of…
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The Girl King (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and historyA portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
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Tess (1979)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceA strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex…
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceIn this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious…
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Vincere (2009)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and historyThe story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.
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Désirée (1954)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceIn Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding General Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces…
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Raintree County (1957)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and dramaIn 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further…
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The Wings of the Dove (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceKate 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…
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Come See the Paradise (1990)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceIn this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily…
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceAfter a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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The Invisible Woman (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and historyIn 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his…
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Third Person (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceAn acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
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Endless Love (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceA privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
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Anna Karenina (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceIn Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high…
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Romeo and Juliet (1936)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceYoung love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.