Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Drama
1969
Movie

Women in Love

6.6
1969

Growing 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 for all four.

7.6

Drama
1965
Movie

Doctor Zhivago

7.6
1965

The 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.

6.1

Drama
2011
Movie

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

6.1
2011

A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.

6.7

Drama
2012
Movie

Anna Karenina

6.7
2012

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Drama
2003
Movie

The Sleeping Dictionary

6.6
2003

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, Selima is assigned to sleep with Truscott and teach him the native language and customs. But when they fall in love, both colonists and natives object to their plans to marry.

Drama
2012
Movie

Private Peaceful

6.6
2012

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.

7.2

Drama
1926
Movie

Flesh and the Devil

7.2
1926

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

6.5

Drama
2016
Movie

Ali and Nino

6.5
2016

Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.

7.4

Drama
1991
Movie

The Man in the Moon

7.4
1991

Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they begin a passionate affair. The new couple try to keep their love hidden from Dani, but she soon learns the truth, disavowing her sister. But a heartbreaking accident later reunites the girls.

6.2

Drama
1990
Movie

Come See the Paradise

6.2
1990

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.

6.1

Drama
1997
Movie

Anna Karenina

6.1
1997

6.2

Drama
2012
Movie

Emperor

6.2
2012

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

6.9

Drama
2014
Movie

Endless Love

6.9
2014

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.

6.7

Drama
2008
Movie

The Other Boleyn Girl

6.7
2008

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

6.3

Drama
2009
Movie

Not Easily Broken

6.3
2009

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

6.3

Romance
2015
Movie

Lady Chatterley's Lover

6.3
2015

An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.

Genre : Romance

Drama
1965
Movie

Ship of Fools

6.6
1965

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early-1930s society.

5.8

Drama
2002
Movie

The Cat's Meow

5.8
2002

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.