20 movies like Colonel Chabert, ordered by similarity : Madame X(1929), War and Peace(1966), Wakefield(2016), Ossessione(1942), Counsellor-at-Law(1933), Force of Evil(1948), Court Martial(1955), What Richard Did(2012), Woman Against Woman(1938), Hell River(1974), Watch on the Rhine(1943), The Price of a Broken Heart(1999) ...
Drama
France
1994
110 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Fanny Ardant Fabrice Luchini André Dussollier Daniel Prévost Maxime Leroux Patrick Bordier Jacky Nercessian Romane Bohringer Eric Elmosnino Olivier Saladin
war hero countess count lawyer child wife dark brooding melodramatic tense paris courtroom battlefield estate legal battle identity greed betrayal estrangement presumed dead
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1929
95 Minutes
Ruth Chatterton Lewis Stone Raymond Hackett Holmes Herbert Eugenie Besserer Sidney Toler Ullrich Haupt Richard Carle Mitchell Lewis Carroll Nye
wife husband son lover lawyer gambler sad melodramatic brooding touching paris estate courtroom street france city estrangement murder case mother/son relationship unhappy marriage
A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.
Romance, War, Drama, History
1966
373 Minutes
Lyudmila Saveleva Sergei Bondarchuk Vyacheslav Tikhonov Oleg Tabakov Boris Zakhava Anatoliy Ktorov Anastasiya Vertinskaya Antonina Shuranova Viktor Stanitsyn
count countess military officer soldier wife socialite creative gripping passionate russia royal palace family home battlefield countryside war love marriage infidelity horrors of war love
Drama
USA
2016
109 Minutes
Bryan Cranston Jennifer Garner Jason O'Mara Beverly D'Angelo Ian Anthony Dale Pippa Bennett-Warner Isaac Leyva Victoria Bruno Ellery Sprayberry Frederick Keeve Hal Dion
lawyer wife child doctor ex-boyfriend client brooding emotional intense dark new york city attic courtroom doctor's office restaurant car nervous breakdown abandonment isolation ex-boyfriends
Bryan Cranston gives the performance of a lifetime as Howard Wakefield, a lawyer on the edge of madness who has decided to disassociate himself from his own life.
Crime, Drama
1942
135 Minutes
Massimo Girotti Clara Calamai Juan de Landa Dhia Cristiani Vittorio Duse Michele Riccardini Michele Sakara Elio Marcuzzo
young man wife husband lawyer detective drifter dark tense sultry italy diner highway car courtroom infidelity murder greed crime trials betrayal
A drifter (Massimo Girotti) helps a beauty (Clara Calamai) kill her husband (Juan de Landa) in Italy.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
78 Minutes
John Barrymore Bebe Daniels Doris Kenyon Isabel Jewell Melvyn Douglas Onslow Stevens Thelma Todd Clara Langsner
attorney rival wife lover secretary emotional dark family home new york city law office social standing infidelity scandal dark secrets class distinctions jewish identity fall transformation discovery 1930s
Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
78 Minutes
John Garfield Beatrice Pearson Thomas Gomez Howland Chamberlin Roy Roberts Marie Windsor Paul McVey Tim Ryan Sid Tomack Georgia Backus Jan Dennis
lawyer brother gangster investigator secretary rival dark tense new york city bank numbers racket family corruption greed investigation temptation rivalry fall 1940s
An unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.
Drama
UK
1955
105 Minutes
englishman war hero wife judge intense melodramatic emotional sultry profound intricate united kingdom court war heroes financial troubles life after wartime unhappy marriage rise fall revenge underdog
A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.
Drama
Ireland
2012
87 Minutes
Jack Reynor Roisin Murphy Sam Keeley Gavin Drea Fionn Walton Lars Mikkelsen Lorraine Pilkington Padraic Delaney Patrick Gibson Liana O'Cleirigh Rachel Gleeson
teen boy teen girl athlete student family bleak brooding brutal chilling dark dense intense raw uneasy ireland dublin coming of age life lessons fighting teen angst
A promising young man about to start university suddenly throws his life into uncertainty when he accidentally commits a serious crime.
Drama
USA
1938
60 Minutes
Herbert Marshall Virginia Bruce Mary Astor Janet Beecher Marjorie Rambeau Juanita Quigley Zeffie Tilbury Sarah Padden Dorothy Christy Morgan Wallace Joseph Crehan
lawyer wife daughter second wife mother husband melodramatic intense household washington, d.c. party country club inn small town divorce jealousy remarriage family duplicity social standing
Cynthia is married to Steve and is a selfish hard woman. She decides where they will live, who they will see and even gets rid of Dora, the nanny who raised Steve and is now raising their ... See full summary »
War, Action, Drama, History
Yugoslavia|USA|Liechtenstein
1974
90 Minutes
Rod Taylor Adam West Brioni Farrell Peter Carsten Olivera Katarina Velimir `Bata' Zivojinovic Branko Plesa
partisan german officer captain colonel general nazi powerful engaging tense intense dark gutsy yugoslavia world war ii nazism former yugoslavia war heroes battle life during wartime pursuit
Partisans in Yugoslavia clash with the Germans that have invaded their homeland in several confrontations until the climactic battle at Hell River.
Drama
USA
1943
114 Minutes
Bette Davis Paul Lukas Geraldine Fitzgerald Lucile Watson Beulah Bondi George Coulouris Donald Woods Henry Daniell Donald Buka Eric Roberts Janis Wilson
engineer wife count son daughter mother tense melodramatic washington, d.c. family home blackmail rebellion nazism rivalry discovery sacrifice 1940s
A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.
Drama
Austria
1999
97 Minutes
Park Overall Laura Innes Timothy Carhart Dan Byrd Libby Whittemore Jordan Williams
unfaithful husband wife mistress lawyer son secretary brooding melodramatic passionate courtroom north carolina infidelity court battles legal problems lawsuit broken home dorothy hutelmyer forbidden love quest rivalry
The film presents the little-known story of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to Shanghai between late 1937 and 1941. After 1939, Shanghai was the last and only resort to find safe haven ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1956
113 Minutes
Jean Gabin Danièle Delorme Lucienne Bogaert Robert Arnoux Liliane Bert Gérard Blain Aimé Clariond Gabrielle Fontan Germaine Kerjean Robert Manuel Jean-Paul Roussillon
restaurant owner young woman ex-wife housekeeper mother-in-law employee dark chilling suspenseful emotional paris restaurant apartment bar france street murder plot deception betrayal estrangement
André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André... See full summary »
Drama, War
USA
2018
119 Minutes
Justin Bruening Sarah Drew Jason George Tia Mowry Skye P. Marshall Tanner Stine Madeline Carroll Eric Close Michael O'Neill Eddie Kaulukukui Samara Lee
soldier wife child veteran husband chaplain brooding emotional uneasy tense iraq office house base camp school marriage war life during wartime life after wartime relationships
The extraordinary true story of Army Chaplain Darren Turner and his wife Heather. When war etches battle scars on their hearts, they face one more battle: the fight to save their marriage. One marriage, one family, under God.
Drama
India
1985
163 Minutes
Nutan Behl Anil Kapoor Amrish Puri Javed Jaffrey Girish Karnad Kamal Kapoor
lawyer innocent man son widow sister wife melodramatic sad tense india beach courtroom mental institution murder family false accusations execution vengeance law quest
Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle.
Drama, History
France
1982
122 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Nathalie Baye Roger Planchon André Chaumeau Maurice Barrier Stéphane Pean Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu Sylvie Meda
wife husband villager magistrate veteran impostor fascinating gripping emotional suspenseful france countryside village courtroom family home impersonation court battles husband/wife relationship con game war aftermath
In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Drama, History
1954
116 Minutes
Kazuo Hasegawa Kyoko Kagawa Yoko Minamida Eitaro Shindo Sakae Ozawa Chieko Naniwa Ichiro Sugai Tatsuya Ishiguro Hisao Toake Ikkei Tamaki Kimiko Tachebana
businessman wife employee brother young girl underling melodramatic dark passionate brooding estate japan shop false accusations doomed romance on the run scandal theft siblings forbidden love
An unforgiving man pursues his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) and her lover (Kazuo Hasegawa) in feudal 17th-century Japan.
Drama
UK
1954
89 Minutes
Cornell Borchers Yvonne Mitchell Armin Dahlen Alexander Knox Geoffrey Keen Liam Redmond Eddie Byrne Theodore Bikel Ferdinand Mayne Andre Mikhelson Pamela Stirling
orphan missing person child judge adoptive father adoptive mother melodramatic emotional bleak germany orphanage house courtroom street adoption presumed dead family foster care custody battle world war ii
A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war.
Drama, History
1965
115 Minutes
Orson Welles Jeanne Moreau John Gielgud Margaret Rutherford Marina Vlady Keith Baxter Norman Rodway
friend girlfriend prince henry iv hostess wife brash cheeky amusing sad england battlefield castle pub inn royal life father/son relationship friendship loyalty war
Welles' adaptation of "Falstaff" and other Shakespearean works, chronicling the nobleman's relationship with Henry V.
Drama
2008
96 Minutes
Reza Naji Hamid Aghazi Maryam Akbari Kamran Dehghan Schabnam Akhlaghi Neshat Nazari Hassan Rezaee Ponya Salehi
laborer wife deaf child father taxi driver businessman emotional amusing powerful tehran, iran countryside ostrich farm road construction site journey poverty unemployment city vs. country mistaken identity father/daughter relationship
The kind and generous nature of a former ostrich farmer (Reza Naji) starts to erode after he takes a job in the city driving a motorcycle taxi.