20 movies like The Children of Huang Shi, ordered by similarity : La Maison de Nina(2005), A Cry From the Streets(1959), Full Metal Jacket(1987), Scarred Hearts(2016), Oranges and Sunshine(2010), Bajirao Mastani(2015), Cloud 9(2008), Hero(2002), Mongol(2007), Professor Marston & the Wonder Women(2017), The Black Book of Father Dinis(2018), Airlift(2016) ...
Drama, History
Australia|China|Germany|USA
2008
125 Minutes
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Radha Mitchell Chow Yun-Fat Michelle Yeoh David Wenham Guang Li Matthew Walker Shane Briant
child journalist nurse orphan communist survivor gripping inspiring china mongolia desert journey orphans war communism quest love transformation 1930s
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Drama, History
France
2005
109 Minutes
Agnès Jaoui Sarah Adler Katia Lewkowicz Arié Elmaleh Charles Berling Adèle Csech Jérémy Sitbon Vincent Rottiers Alexis Pivot Max Levy Lola Naymark
orphan soldier child jew refugee woman emotional moving solemn orphanage france chateau paris world war ii holocaust childcare culture clash religious differences orphans transformation
During WWII a group of Jewish children is sent to a castle outside Paris to hide there until things cool down, but it eventually becomes their new home. Later, children from the liberated concentration camps arrive there as well.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1959
99 Minutes
Max Bygraves Barbara Murray Colin Petersen
social worker orphan electrician poor boy poor girl love interest heartwarming charming melodramatic engaging london orphanage orphans unlikely romance childcare love poverty work discovery love
A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler. (1959; B&W)
War, Drama, History
UK|USA
1987
116 Minutes
Matthew Modine Adam Baldwin Vincent D'Onofrio R. Lee Ermey Dorian Harewood Arliss Howard Kevyn Major Howard Ed O'Ross
marine journalist drill instructor sergeant photographer prostitute dark disturbing raw gripping frightening sad barracks parris island, s.c. vietnam city boot camp war zone war violence
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Drama, History
2016
141 Minutes
Lucian Teodor Rus Gabriel Spahiu Ivana Mladenovic Ilinca Harnut Bogdan Cotlet Marius Damian Alexandru Dabija Dana Voicu Andrei Rus Liliana Ghita
sick person doctor nurse patient friend amusing profound powerful inspiring touching sanatorium hospital carriage office doctor's office hospital room life illness friendship relationships
Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
Drama, History
UK|Australia
2010
105 Minutes
Emily Watson David Wenham Hugo Weaving Richard Dillane Lorraine Ashbourne Kate Rutter Greg Stone Tara Morice Stuart Wolfenden
social worker victim orphan caregiver bleak disheartening nottingham, england office australia orphanage sweatshop child abuse immigration deception civil rights government cover-up orphans wretched excess quest 1980s
Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
Romance, Action, Drama, History
India
2015
158 Minutes
Priyanka Chopra Deepika Padukone Ranveer Singh Aditya Pancholi Mahesh Manjrekar Milind Soman Tanvi Azmi Vaibbhav Tatwawdi
warrior prince princess queen mother gripping intense powerful inspiring passionate india city mansion kingdom battlefield love at first sight love triangle love adventure quest
An account of the romance between the Maratha general, Baji Rao I and Mastani, princess of Bundelkhand.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Sports & Fitness, Action, Drama, History
2002
93 Minutes
Jet Li Tony Leung Maggie Cheung Donnie Yen Chen Daoming Zhang Ziyi Liu Zhongyuan Tianyong Zheng
king warrior assassin gripping incredible spectacular rousing china palace desert love assassination betrayal revenge quest adventure rivalry 2nd century b.c.
Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) who tried to kill the emperor of China.
Adventure, Drama, History, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Kazakhstan|China
2007
126 Minutes
Tadanobu Asano Honglei Sun Khulan Chuluun Amadu Mamadakov Bayertsetseg Erdenebat Amarbold Tuvshinbayar Tegen Ao Sai Xing Ga
warrior wife father soldier slave brooding gripping intense mongolia outdoors camp genghis khan childhood marriage betrayal slavery friendship growing up love rivalry
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.
Drama, History, Biography
USA
2017
108 Minutes
Luke Evans Rebecca Hall Bella Heathcote Connie Britton Monica Giordano JJ Feild Chris Conroy Oliver Platt Maggie Castle Alexa Havins Sharon Kubo
professor writer inventor lover wife emotional sultry powerful passionate intricate inspiring harvard university massachusetts house stage classroom womanhood comic books threesome marriage
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Drama, Romance, History
USA
2018
103 Minutes
Lou de Laâge Stanislas Merhar Niels Schneider Jenna Thiam David Caracol Fleur Fitoussi Vasco Varela da Silva Tiago Varela da Silva Victória Guerra Joana Ribeiro Catarina Wallenstein
orphan nurse charming cheeky brutal creative emotional engaging fascinating inspiring passionate raw spirited europe france italy life story new experiences new town adventure
A documentary about everyone's favorite felon, Bernie Ellis, medical cannabis and his fight to save his beloved Tennessee farm.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
India
2016
140 Minutes
Akshay Kumar Nimrat Kaur Inaamulhaq Avtar Gill Feryna Wazheir Purab Kohli Lena Kumud Mishra
young man young woman daughter driver emotional endearing gripping powerful inspiring incredible kuwait city house war zone american civil war iran--iraq war stranded airlift quest pursuit
When Iraq invades Kuwait in August 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperson for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen.
Animation, Comedy, Drama
Switzerland|France
2016
66 Minutes
orphan police officer amusing charming cheeky confident creative endearing heartwarming inspiring playful positive foster home switzerland france meaning of life trust true love growing up orphans
After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
Drama, History
USA
1998
111 Minutes
Catherine McCormack Rufus Sewell Jacqueline Bisset Oliver Platt Moira Kelly Fred Ward Naomi Watts Jeroen Krabbé Joanna Cassidy Daniel Lapaine Jake Weber
aristocrat courtesan mother lover wrongly accused zealot powerful fiery passionate sultry venice, italy old city palace beauty poverty love power play suspicion book transformation
A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.
Action, Drama, Adventure, History
UK|Spain|USA
2014
150 Minutes
Christian Bale Joel Edgerton John Turturro Aaron Paul Ben Kingsley Sigourney Weaver Golshifteh Farahani María Valverde Ben Mendelsohn Dar Salim Indira Varma
moses ramses xiii pharaoh god slave orphan emotional inspiring somber spectacular dark ancient egypt desert sinai desert mountain pyramid royal palace the bible escape plagues
The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
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
Biography, Drama, History
UK
2017
107 Minutes
Domhnall Gleeson Margot Robbie Kelly Macdonald Alex Lawther Will Tilston Stephen Campbell Moore Vicki Pepperdine Richard McCabe Geraldine Somerville Phoebe Waller-Bridge
christopher robin writer piglet father son winnie the pooh cheery charming creative endearing heartwarming playful london english countryside woods postwar britain children's book parent/child relationship writing success
The relationship between writer AA Milne and his son, Christopher Robin, and how this became the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Drama
Kenya|India|USA|Canada|South Africa
2014
109 Minutes
Reese Witherspoon Arnold Oceng Ger Duany Emmanuel Jal Corey Stoll Thad Luckinbill Nyakuoth Wiel Femi Oguns Sarah Baker Lindsey Garrett
orphan sibling survivor refugee manager woman chilling emotional fascinating sudan kenya refugee camp airplane house office war orphans refugees journey adaptation
A group of Sudanese refugees, given the chance to resettle in the U.S., arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives.