Top 20 movies like The Law Divine
Top 20 Movies like The Law Divine
- 1. The Street Called Straight
- 2. The Highest Bidder
- 3. Voices of the City
- 4. Shadow of the Law
- 5. Diane of the Green Van
- 6. Between Evening and Morning
- 7. Diebe
- 8. Lost in the Dark
- 9. Whose Wife?
- 10. Seventeen
- 11. The Winding Stair
- 12. The Arm of the Law
- 13. Vanity Pool
- 14. Leatherlip
- 15. India Speaks
- 16. Evangeline
- 17. Unborn Souls
- 18. Shadows of the Past
- 19. Revelation
- 20. Magda
1. The Street Called Straight
Directed by Wallace Worsley.
2. The Highest Bidder
Society miss Sally Raeburn is left penniless and is helped out by an older woman. The woman makes it clear that to repay her, Sally must marry wealth, so when the very well-heeled Lester comes to her village, Sally goes after him. Lester has been traveling incognito in the hopes that no one will discover him, so when Sally wins him she feels guilty and confesses that she knew who he was all along.
3. Voices of the City
Voices of the City is a 1921 American silent crime drama film starring Leatrice Joy and Lon Chaney that was directed by Wallace Worsley. It is considered to be a lost film.
4. Shadow of the Law
A young woman is framed and sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit. When she is released, she sets out to take her revenge on those responsible. -from IMDB.com
5. Diane of the Green Van
An heiress takes a road trip in a green van. Unbeknownst to her, she has four pursuers.
6. Between Evening and Morning (Zwischen Abend und Morgen)
A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass.
8. Lost in the Dark (Sperduti nel buio)
Paolina is the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Vallenza, and lives as a beggar. She meets with Nunzio, a blind man who plays violin, exploited by his stepfather, and the two fall in love. The old Duke, remorsing, tries to find his daughter but he doesn't manage and leaves everything to his latest concubine, Livia, while Nunzio and Paolina will live in misery. The only copy of this film was destroyed in World War Two
9. Whose Wife?
Mary marries Claude, a rich playboy, to please her invalid mother who becomes ill before they leave for a South American honeymoon.
10. Seventeen
Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.
11. The Winding Stair
Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually a subterfuge hatched by the Arabs, so that the city under Paul's command will be left unguarded and defenseless.
12. The Arm of the Law
A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
13. Vanity Pool
A candidate for governor, eager Gerald Harper persuades his equally ambitious wife Carol to enlist the aid of her friend Diana Casper, whose influence with political boss Jarvis Flint could help him win the election. Carol agrees to speak to Diana on condition that Gerald temporarily assume her work in the city's tenements.
14. Leatherlip
A super-model begins to question her glitzy, frenetic lifestyle when she awakes after a all night party to find a strange man in her bed. She sees a surfer riding the waves below, follows him to his tented camp on the banks of a river. 'Leatherlip' earns a living making leather goods and roaming around on an extraordinary 'trike' with his worldly goods and surfboard strapped on an overhead rack. They fall in love and she abandons her previous life. Then inexplicably she disappears. Leatherlip sets off on a cross-country odyssey to find her, knowing only that her father lives on a boat on the West Coast...
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
15. India Speaks
A documentary of explorer Richard Halliburton's travels on the Indian sub-continent, featuring a mix of real and staged footage.
16. Evangeline
In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them into exile with their lands forfeit to the Crown Evangeline follows the exiled men in hopes of finding her beloved, but even after he and the other Acadians are released in Louisiana, she cannot find him, always arriving at some locale just after he has departed. But she dedicates her life to searching the continent for the man she loves.
17. Unborn Souls
The crusading Dr. Kent tries to convince the district attorney to clean up the local abortion racket and help open a birth control clinic. But when Kent is dismissed from the hospital, the troubles actually begin.
18. Shadows of the Past (Mineviku varjud)
The Livonian Order has conquered Estonia and country people try hard protecting their freedom. Uno, a brave man, escapes from imprisonment and goes back to his fellow tribesmen. Encouraged by his parents and a wise man, Kaljo has just become a young leader, when people are being attacked by the Brothers of the Sword. Kaljo's loved one Laine and Uno become victims of the enemy. Virve, Kaljo's sister, sneaks in and liberates Uno who will join the resistance fighters facing the battle of life and death.
20. Magda
Magda rebels against the harsh treatment she receives from her stern father . She ultimately escapes from home with aspirations to become a singer. She is betrayed by Kellner , a friend of the family, but she also becomes a great success.