Movies Like The Dowry
If you liked The Dowry (1973), a drama movie directed by Letitia Popa Schwartz, 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 Killing (1956)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaCareer criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaMillionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…
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Widows (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a…
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Pitfall (1948)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAn insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
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Dream Lover (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaNot long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaYoung teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even…
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Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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Bound (1996)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaCorky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted…
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Deep Water (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaA well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
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Crime of Passion (1956)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaKathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a…
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Dogville (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
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Sleuth (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaLocked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.
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Undercurrent (1946)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaAfter a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael…
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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThree childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect…
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An Inspector Calls (1954)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaAn upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in…
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Dial M for Murder (1954)
★ 8/10Also dramaWhen her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.
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Acrimony (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaFaithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot let it go.
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Effie Gray (2014)
★ 6/10Also dramaA look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
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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.