Top 20 movies like Manoa

Manoa

The intent of novice director Solveig Hoogesteijn to make a drama about two Venezuelans from opposite sides of the economic and social tracks wobbles and weakens in the telling. Although the two compatriots both live in the capital, Caracas, and both love music, they have a need to go out into the rest of the country and discover their roots. As big-city dwellers, they are limited in their perspectives, though this excursion into other areas of Venezuela may prove more illuminating to them than to a foreign audience.

Manoa is of 1 hour(s) and 42 minute(s). It is Produced By:  . It was released on 1980-03-19.

Genres: Drama

1. Stilleben (Stilleben)

Stilleben

A movie by Marie-Louise De Geer Bergenstråhle.

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2. Fadern, sonen och den helige ande... (Fadern, sonen och den helige ande...)

Fadern, sonen och den helige ande...

A movie by Marie-Louise De Geer Bergenstråhle.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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3. Jacob smitaren

Jacob smitaren

A movie by Göran du Rées and Christina Olofson.

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4. Francesca e Nunziata (Francesca e Nunziata)

Francesca e Nunziata

At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca , adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love Federico , her adoptive brother, son of Francesca.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

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5. Werewolf (Libahunt)

Werewolf

There are three children growing at Tammaru farm - one boy, Margus; and two orphan girls, Mari and Tiina. Tiina is lively and full of energy. Margus holds her very dear to him. Margus's parents want him to marry Mari instead as she is more their kind. Hotblooded Tiina is completely different from them and her mother was once executed for being a witch. Mari thinks that Tiina has bewitched Margus and cannot stand this, so she starts to publicly blame her stepsister for being a werewolf.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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6. Apple Trees (Apfelbäume)

Apple Trees

When East Germany ceases to be separate from its western half, one would think that things would be better for the couple in this movie who have been plagued by sexual and political harassment of the most virulent kind, but , they are completely unprepared to cope with the swift changes that are transforming their familiar yet desperately unhappy world. In the story, Heinz is a laborer in the cooperative apple orchards of an East German village and has married his sweetheart Lena. She works to take care of the sickly wife of the co-op's manager and also must cope with the sexual attentions of the perfidious man. One day, after discovering this state of affairs, Heinz blows up and assaults his wife's harasser, which only serves to land him in jail. While in prison, the state secret police get him to help them entrap the co-op manager, whom they believe is going to try to defect.

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7. Gala & Godfrey The Classics

Gala & Godfrey The Classics

Love, Sex, Marriage, Divorce... just not in that order. Within the framework of a record album, Gala & Godfrey tracks the classic moments in the lives of a charming, exasperating British expat and his American wife through 12 years of their sexy, chaotic romance and divorce.

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8. Hope and a Little Sugar

Hope and a Little Sugar

Ali is a photographer and bike messenger who lives in New York. He develops a friendship and falls in love with a married woman, Saloni Oberoi . When her husband, Harry Oberoi , is killed during the September 11 attacks, Harry's father, a retired Colonel , begins to take his aggressions out on Ali for being a Muslim. Although Mrs. Oberoi tries to stop the Colonel's behavior, the situation escalates as the Colonel, himself, becomes the target of social post-9/11 aggression directed towards him because he is a Sikh.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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9. The Lost Father (Der verlorene Vater)

The Lost Father

(Der verlorene Vater)

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10. The Unwanted Woman (زن زیادی)

The Unwanted Woman

A woman trapped in an unhappy marriage: Sima, must contend with a husband so insensitive that he makes no effort to hide his various sexual indiscretions. He forces her into an even more uncomfortable situation when he asks his wife to pretend she is related to his current girlfriend in order to avoid trouble from a society that punishes unmarried couples for being together in public.

It has an average vote of 2 on TMDB.

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11. Investigation (Разследване)

Investigation

An investigator tries to solve a murder, her constant interviews with the main suspect cause the investigation to take many twists and turns as what is said is not always what is meant.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

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12. About Em: The Prince of Dreams (Drömprinsen - Filmen om Em)

About Em: The Prince of Dreams

14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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13. Välkommen till festen

Välkommen till festen

While her parents are absent, Isabell has invited a few of her closest, best-behaving friends to celebrate New Year's Eve in her house. However, the good spirit turns sour when some older guys crash the party. The alcohol they bring put the teens in a frenzied state where friends become enemies, couples cheat on each other and medical student Peter is almost killed in a party they won't easily forget.

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14. Madness, All of Life Is Madness (Wahnsinn, das ganze Leben ist Wahnsinn)

Madness, All of Life Is Madness

(Wahnsinn, das ganze Leben ist Wahnsinn)

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15. The Madness of the Valiants (La folie des vaillants)

The Madness of the Valiants

A symbolist portrait of two gypsies in love, this captivating film finds Dulac deconstructing onscreen gender roles and striving to achieve her idea of cinema as a “visual symphony,” emphasizing rhythmic editing over acting to achieve a “cinema of suggestion.”

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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16. They Conquer the Skies (Им покоряется небо)

They Conquer the Skies

The end of the 1940s. Test pilot Aleksei Kolchin was commissioned for the first time to fly the first Soviet jet fighter. The tests are successful, but it is necessary to improve the aircraft. When performing a test flight, Kolchin dies, his last words are recorded on tape. Having studied them, Kolchin's friend Sergei Sharov makes a new attempt and completes the test of the aircraft.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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17. Gisela (Gisela)

Gisela

Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.

It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.

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18. Lady Chatterley (Lady Chatterley)

Lady Chatterley

In the Chatterley country estate, monotonous days follow one after the other for Constance, trapped by her marriage and her sense of duty. During spring, deep in the heart of Wragby forest, she encounters Parkin, the estate’s gamekeeper. A tale of an encounter, a difficult apprenticeship, a slow awakening to sensuality for her, a long return to life for him. Or how love is but one with experience and transformation.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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19. After the Wedding (Efter brylluppet)

After the Wedding

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

It has an average vote of 7.144 on TMDB.

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20. The Preacher's Mistress

The Preacher's Mistress

Gwen Griffith is a hard working, single mom struggling to make ends meet while taking online classes to get her insurance sales license. Gwen doesn't think she has time to find "Mr. Right." That is until handsome, charming and successful Ed Baker jogs into her life and makes her think perhaps there is room for love. Gwen's hopes for happily ever after crumble when Gwen discovers Ed is not only married with kids... but also the preacher of a popular church. When Ed's heiress wife is murdered, Gwen find herself in the middle of a police investigation that forces her to face skeletons from her past, and fight for her freedom and custody of her son.

It has an average vote of 3.4 on TMDB.

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