20 movies like Padmaavat, ordered by similarity : Antony and Cleopatra(1972), Woodpeckers(2017), Fool for Love(1985), War and Peace(1966), Bajirao Mastani(2015), Cloud 9(2008), Obey(2018), Carol(2015), Carve Her Name With Pride(1958), The Private Life of Henry VIII(1933), Henry VIII and His Six Wives(1972), Frantz(2016) ...
War, Drama, History
India
2018
164 Minutes
Deepika Padukone Shahid Kapoor Ranveer Singh Aditi Rao Hydari Anupriya Goenka Raza Murad Jim Sarbh
king queen tyrant wife uncle eunuch brutal bleak disheartening emotional gripping intense kingdom castle mansion forest temple battlefield love at first sight jealousy
Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.
Drama, History
UK|Spain|Switzerland
1972
160 Minutes
Charlton Heston Hildegard Neil Eric Porter John Castle Fernando Rey Juan Luis Galiardo
queen egyptian lover rival roman seducer brooding emotional gripping intense moving powerful egypt kingdom chamber desert love sacrifice rivalry power
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
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
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.
Drama
UK
2018
96 Minutes
Marcus Rutherford Sophie Kennedy Clark Sam Gittins T'Nia Miller James Atwell Wil Coban Taurean Steele Jasmine Jobson Joshua Blisset Daniel Akilimali Christine Taetz
love interest man boxer trainer friend police officer brash brutal raw emotional unrestrained apartment boxing ring london street party jealousy obsession riots boxing
As London slides towards a time of violent social unrest, on the estates of East London, a young man's life is torn apart by a love for a girl from a different place.
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.
Drama, Biography, History
UK
1958
116 Minutes
Virginia McKenna Paul Scofield Jack Warner Denise Grey Alain Saury Maurice Ronet Anne Leon Sydney Tafler
spy woman man soldier husband daughter confident emotional engaging patriotic france england germany train concentration camp espionage war love death pursuit
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
Drama, History
USA
1933
92 Minutes
Charles Laughton Elsa Lanchester Binnie Barnes Robert Donat Merle Oberon Miles Mander Wendy Barrie John Loder
anne boleyn wife queen king cheeky melodramatic emotional england royal court castle king henry viii marriage royalty death infidelity forbidden love love 16th century
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Drama, History
UK
1972
125 Minutes
king henry viii wife ex-wife prince princess widow brooding profound emotional melodramatic passionate patriotic great britain castle london church chapel king henry viii marriage british royal family
On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.
Drama, History
France|Germany
2016
113 Minutes
Pierre Niney Paula Beer Ernst Stötzner Marie Gruber Johann von Bülow Anton von Lucke Cyrielle Claire Alice De Lencquesaing
widow veteran mysterious man soldier confident dreamy emotional intense france house lake train station world war i grief love friendship love triangle life after wartime love discovery
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Romance, Crime, Drama
2014
93 Minutes
Jessica Sula Lucien Laviscount Naomi Ryan Lauren Johns Tosin Cole Ntonga Mwanza Danielle Vitalis Savannah Gordon-Liburd Modupe Adeyeye
teen girl gang leader gang member teen boy bully bleak brutal dark emotional gripping powerful tense uneasy london united kingdom school street gangs revenge passion
Layla, a 15-year-old living in Brixton, becomes involved with a gang and must set up a boy to be killed.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2013
97 Minutes
Anna Friel Romola Garai Andrew Buchan Philip Davis Isaac Andrews Steven Cree Harry Hadden-Paton Hattie Morahan
love child fiancé fiancée former lover son father emotional engaging gripping heartwarming intense tender united kingdom coast town home hospital family relationships father/son relationship
Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
Romance, Mystery & Thriller, War, Drama, History, Action
UK|USA
2016
119 Minutes
Brad Pitt Marion Cotillard Jared Harris Simon McBurney Lizzy Caplan Daniel Betts Matthew Goode Camille Cottin August Diehl Thierry Frémont Marion Bailey
intelligence officer resistance fighter frenchwoman nazi commander child brooding emotional intense suspenseful powerful north africa london apartment headquarters park car world war ii love spying
In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Drama, History
1998
121 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Geoffrey Rush Christopher Eccleston Joseph Fiennes Richard Attenborough Fanny Ardant Kathy Burke Éric Cantona James Frain Vincent Cassel Daniel Craig
queen lover adviser nobleman brooding suspenseful emotional gripping england castle royal court royal life espionage historical events queen elizabeth i rivalry sacrifice love 17th century
After succeeding her sister Mary to the throne in 1558, Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) rules Britain for more than 40 years.
Drama, History, War
South Korea
2017
140 Minutes
Byung-hun Lee Yun-seok Kim Ko Soo Woo-jin Jo Hae-il Park Hee-soon Park
king soldier bleak gory passionate rousing solemn suspenseful striking fortress korea forest war invasion suffering sacrifice rivalry revenge quest pursuit
In 1636, King Injo hides in the mountains to avoid being part of the Qing dynasty.
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
Afghanistan|France
2013
85 Minutes
Haji Gul Aser Wajma Bahar Mustafa Abdulsatar Brehna Bahar Assib Ibrahim Saleha Ibrahim Tahera Hashemi
afghan woman man love interest student pregnant woman disheartening thrilling tense intense moving melodramatic afghanistan kabul, afghanistan love sex unwanted pregnancy secret love family honor family relationships
It's snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins a clandestine relationship - they're playful and passionate but ever mindful of the... See full summary »
Drama, History, War
Netherlands|Belgium
2008
103 Minutes
Martijn Lakemeier Yorick van Wageningen Jamie Campbell Bower Raymond Thiry Melody Klaver Anneke Blok Mees Peijnenburg Jesse Van Driel Dan van Husen Ad van Kempen Tygo Gernandt
airman teen boy sister father german officer bleak intense suspenseful emotional village secret hideout forest river on the run romantic dilemma life during wartime survival rescue love discovery
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.