Movies Like The Valley of Decision
If you liked The Valley of Decision (1945), a drama and romance movie directed by Tay Garnett, 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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The Molly Maguires (1970)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaSchuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of…
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Norma Rae (1979)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaNorma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer…
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Jude (1996)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceIn late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named…
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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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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romancePhotographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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Train Dreams (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and romanceA story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be…
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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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Othello (1951)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaManipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.
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FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaLondon, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
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The New World (2005)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceA drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAlbany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that…
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Under Capricorn (1949)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceA British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.
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In Love and War (1996)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceAfter teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair…
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The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaMischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and…
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Hamnet (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romanceThe powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
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Women in Love (1969)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceGrowing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results…
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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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East of Eden (1955)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaIn the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war…