A Tale of Three Cities (2015)

History
2014
Movie

The Golden Era

6.6
2014

The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.

Genre : History

Drama
1955
Movie

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

6
1955

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.

6.5

Drama
2003
Movie

The Sleeping Dictionary

6.5
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.

6.3

Drama
2009
Movie

Not Easily Broken

6.3
2009

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

Drama
2012
Movie

Dangerous Liaisons

6
2012

Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

6.1

Drama
2005
Movie

Nine Lives

6.1
2005

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Romance
2017
Movie

Their Finest

6.6
2017

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

Genre : Romance

5.9

Romance
1954
Movie

Elephant Walk

5.9
1954

Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and weds lovely English rose Ruth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver (Dana Andrews), and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.

Genre : Romance

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

7.3

Drama
2022
Movie

Return to Dust

7.3
2022

Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as both Ma and Cao, uniting with Earth's cycles, create a haven for themselves in which they can thrive.

Drama
2002
Movie

Possession

6
2002

Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.

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.

6.9

History
1998
Movie

The Emperor and the Assassin

6.9
1998

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Genre : History

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.

Drama
1965
Movie

Ship of Fools

6.6
1965

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.

Drama
1932
Movie

Shanghai Express

7
1932

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.

7.5

Drama
2024
Movie

Her Story

7.5
2024

Wang Tiemei, a single mother, loses her job and moves, befriending neighbor Xiaoye who appears cheerful but is depressed. Their bond grows as Tiemei navigates relationships with her ex-husband causing trouble.

6.8

History
2020
Movie

A Call to Spy

6.8
2020

The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.

Genre : History