Movies Like Oscar and Lucinda
If you liked Oscar and Lucinda (1997), a drama and romance movie directed by Gillian Armstrong, 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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Croupier (1998)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaJack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked…
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Great Expectations (1946)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceIn this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first…
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The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceMs. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the…
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21 (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaBen Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000…
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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaIn Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceNick Carraway arrives in New York in 1922, an era of loose morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious millionaire Gatsby and his bewitching cousin Daisy…
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A Room with a View (1986)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceWhen Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change…
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
★ 8.2/10Also dramaAn ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…
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Great Expectations (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceOrphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but…
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaIn the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic…
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Ghost (1990)
★ 7.3/10Also romanceAfter a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
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Owning Mahowny (2003)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaDan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To…
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The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceA young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.
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Honkytonk Man (1982)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaDuring the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry.
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The Light Between Oceans (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceA lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
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Mansfield Park (1999)
★ 6.7/10Also romance and dramaFanny 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.
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Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceIn Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William…
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Atlantic City (1980)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceIn a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
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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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Scrooge (1951)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaEbenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a…