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Movies Like The Golden Era

If you liked The Golden Era (2014), a history and drama movie directed by Ann Hui, 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. 1Love Everlasting

    Love Everlasting (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and drama

    Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.

  2. 2Her Story

    Her Story (2024)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    Wang Tiemei, a single mother, loses her job and moves, befriending neighbor Xiaoye who appears cheerful but is depressed. Their bond grows as Tiemei navigates relationships with her ex-husband causing trouble.

  3. 3The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying 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.

  4. 4Breathe

    Breathe (2017)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

  5. 5Mansfield Park

    Mansfield Park (1999)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and drama

    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.

  6. 6Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  7. 7Life in a Year

    Life in a Year (2020)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama and romance

    A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

  8. 8Dangerous Liaisons

    Dangerous Liaisons (2012)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

  9. 9Purple Hearts

    Purple Hearts (2022)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

  10. 10Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

    Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?

  11. 11Red Sorghum

    Red Sorghum (1988)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal…

  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. 13A Perfect Ending

    A Perfect Ending (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect…

  14. 14Racing with the Moon

    Racing with the Moon (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be…

  15. 15Nine Lives

    Nine Lives (2005)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

  16. 16Endless Love

    Endless Love (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

  17. 17Their Finest

    Their Finest (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and drama

    During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook…

  18. 18Winter's Tale

    Winter's Tale (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

  19. 19The 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…

  20. 20Possession

    Possession (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of…

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