Movies Like Maria Candelaria
If you liked Maria Candelaria (1944), a drama and romance movie directed by Emilio Fernández, 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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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and romanceA married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Blind (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
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Days of Heaven (1978)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceIn 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
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Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaThree people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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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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2 Hearts (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also romance and dramaWhen illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.
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Dark Waters (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own…
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EO (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaThe world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune…
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The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceA widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
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The Longest Ride (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceThe lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
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Nobody Has to Know (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceAfter a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with his deepest secret : they were in love.
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Life in a Year (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and romanceA 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.
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceBeautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceTold from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
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Not Easily Broken (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceA car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceA depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
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Love Everlasting (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also romance and dramaBridger 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.
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News of the World (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA Texan traveling across the wild West bringing the news of the world to local townspeople, agrees to help rescue a young girl who was kidnapped.
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Indecent Proposal (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and dramaJohn Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.
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Fathers and Daughters (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.