Top 20 movies like The Virgin of Guadalupe
Top 20 Movies like The Virgin of Guadalupe
- 1. Devdas
- 2. Evangeline
- 3. Die Glückspuppe
- 4. Robinson Crusoe
- 5. Loves of an Actress
- 6. The Charmer
- 7. The Woman on Trial
- 8. Leatherlip
- 9. The Crown of Lies
- 10. The House Built Upon Sand
- 11. Bones of Crows
- 12. Pow Wow Summer
- 13. Ka Pō
- 14. The Glimpses of the Moon
- 15. A Man's Past
- 16. Edge of the Knife
- 17. The Barricade
- 18. The Valiants of Virginia
- 19. 1492: Conquest of Paradise
- 20. The Bravest Way
1. Devdas (দেবদাস)
Devdas, the son of a zamindar, and Parvati, his neighbour's daughter, are childhood sweethearts. However, class and caste differences prevent their marriage. Devdas is sent off to Calcutta, while Paro is married off to an aged rich widower. In Calcutta, as remorse drives him to alcohol, Devdas meets Chandramukhi, a prostitute. All Indian prints of this Bengali version were destroyed in a fire that ravaged New Theatre’s studios. Today, only one copy of the film survives which belongs to the Bangladesh Film Archives. Of that copy almost forty percent is destroyed.
2. 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.
3. Die Glückspuppe (Die Glückspuppe)
Luise Fleck's first credited work as a co-director.
4. Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival on the island, until he meets Friday, a tribesman whom he saves from being sacrificed. Initially, Crusoe is thrilled to finally have a friend, but he has to defend himself against the tribe who uses the island to sacrifice tribesman to their gods. During time their relationship changes from master-slave to a mutual respected friendship despite their difference in culture and religion.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
5. Loves of an Actress (Loves of an Actress)
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....
6. The Charmer
A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are Ralph Bayne, a millionaire playboy, and his chauffeur, Dan Murray, both of whom first met her in Spain. Madly in love with Bayne, Mrs. Sedgwick invites Mariposa and her mother to a weekend party in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the beautiful dancer. Bayne quickly realizes that Mariposa is out of place in high society, and, determining to make her his mistress, takes her home with him. Mrs. Sedgwick unexpectedly arrives at Bayne's swank suite , and Mariposa protects the society woman's reputation at the cost of her own.
7. The Woman on Trial
A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.
8. 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.
9. The Crown of Lies
Romantic drama directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki.
10. The House Built Upon Sand
Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the factory town of Oreville, where he works as factory manager. He takes her to their home in the factory town and there orders his housekeeper to take away her useless clothes and to supply those befitting the wife of a factory manager. Trouble lies ahead.....
11. Bones of Crows
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and translate codes into working for a special division of the Canadian Air Force as a Cree code talker in World War II. The story unfolds over 100 years with a cumulative force that propels us into the future.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
12. Pow Wow Summer
A coming-of-age story that follows two teenagers in love doing the Pow wow circuit.
13. Ka Pō
A young Polynesian woman trapped in the throes of an abusive relationship gets revenge by burning down her boyfriend's home. Fearing retaliation, she flees into the mountains of Kauai, Hawaii, where she discovers a mythical creature that guides her back to her ancestral roots.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
14. The Glimpses of the Moon
The film is based upon the 1922 Edith Wharton novel The Glimpses of the Moon.
15. A Man's Past
A Man's Past
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
16. Edge of the Knife (SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna)
Island of Haida Gwaii, northern Canada, 19th century. During a fishing gathering, Adiits'ii commits an unfortunate act. Tormented, he runs away to the wilderness as his mind embraces madness.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
17. The Barricade
Debutante Hope Merrill returns home one day to find her financier father Amos Merrill on the verge of committing suicide. Rather than reveal the truth -- that he has misappropriated funds from his own company -- Merrill claims that he has been ruined by young John Cook , Hope's sweetheart.
18. The Valiants of Virginia
(The Valiants of Virginia)
19. 1492: Conquest of Paradise
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
20. The Bravest Way
Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa was one of the most popular leading men in American silent films-this despite the fact that orientals were traditionally cast as villains at the time. In The Bravest Way, Hayakawa carries self-sacrifice to the nth degree. He is so devoted-in a perfectly platonic manner-to the widow of his best friend that he loses the love of his American fiancee . Lost film.