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Movies: Best "melodrama" Movies


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Y Tu Mamá También(2001)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 637 votes)

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

White Zombie(1932)

1h 7min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 104 votes)

In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.

No Man of Her Own(1950)

1h 38min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

A Free Woman(1954)

1h 33min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.

A Promise(1998)

1h 47min | Romance / Love, Crime
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

When she met him at the first time, he was a wounded person. However, she saw him through his clear eyes hidden in the bandage. She, Chae Hi-Ju, is a doctor and he, Kong Sang-Du, is a boss of a bandit. The pair seemed not to love each other in terms of their position, but they were closed to each other giving up their own world. However, he was not a common man...

Tamanna(2014)

1h 23min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of a struggling actor who meets Mian Tariq Ali, a relic of the once thriving film industry. The struggling actor is there to convince Ali to divorce his wife. A contest of male dominance between the two men ensues, starting quite reasonably, playfully even, but eventually turning angry and violent.

Directed by Steven Moore - With Mehreen Raheel, Salman Shahid

Obey the Law(1933)

1h 4min | Drama

In this drama, an immigrant barber becomes a US citizen and works hard to uphold his ideals of personal freedom and rights. He is a total supporter of the system, and when he is held-up, decides to reform the criminal by feeding him and finding him work. Later, a local politician attempts to tell people how to vote, but the barber is not swayed and becomes an example to others in his neighborhood.

Directed by Benjamin Stoloff - With Leo Carrillo

Police Car 17(1933)

57min | Crime, Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Motor patrolman Tim Conlon and his partner Bumps O'Neill vie for the attentions of Helen Regan, daughter of a fellow cop.

Enticement(1925)

1h 10min | Drama

Enticement (1925)

Directed by George Archainbaud - With Mary Astor

Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?(1983)

1h 40min | Drama, Music
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.

Directed by Yu Kan-ping

Foreign Devils(1927)

50min | Action, History, Drama

Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.

Jazzmania(1923)

1h 20min | Drama

The queen of a mythical European nation flees to America when a general threatens to overthrow her government.

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Manslaughter(1922)

1h 40min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.

Invitation(1952)

1h 24min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A rich man buys a husband for his dying daughter and she finds out.

I Love That Man(1933)

1h 14min | Comedy, Drama

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well until some ex-partners he double crossed show up in town demanding the money he cheated them out of.

Directed by Harry Joe Brown - With Edmund Lowe

The Confidence Man(1924)

1h 20min | Crime, Drama

Wade is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan and Larry Maddox, down to the small Florida town of Fairfield to make a sale to the miserly Godfrey Queritt (Charles Dow Clark). When Corvan discovers that Sunday school teacher Margaret Leland is friends with the old man, he romances her. He also helps out the local charities and endears himself to the local folk. Corvan is too good at his tricks -- all this hard-won trust is turning him into an honest man.

A Shattered Diamond(2021)

1h 41min | Drama

A story of a group friends as they deal with the loss of one of their own, and learn how to move on.

Lady Robinhood(1925)

50min | Drama

Disguising herself as a masked bandit, Catalina, the ward of the governor of a Spanish province, avenges injustice, aids the poor, and plots a revolution.

The Young Diana(1922)

1h 30min | Drama

Mr. May wants his daughter Diana to marry into society. The man he wishes her to wed is a scientist, Dr. Dimitrius, but Diana is in love with an officer, Commander Cleeve.

Directed by Albert Capellani - With Marion Davies

The Scar of Shame(1929)

1h 26min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.

Directed by Frank Peregini

Rose of the World(1925)

1h 20min | Drama

In India, Rosamond English learns that her husband Capt. Harry English has been killed in battle. After a time, she marries Sir Arthur Gerardine but is unable to forget her first husband, and gradually her love for him is rekindled, especially when she contrasts him to the pompous and elderly Sir Arthur.

Directed by Harry Beaumont

La perversa(1954)

1h 29min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Working-class girl becomes a Kept Woman, violating all of man's laws and God's Mandates.

Ashes of Vengeance(1923)

1h 51min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.

Does the American Moon Rise Over Itaewon ?(1991)

1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love

Yu Jin is a member of a gang in Itaewon district. He will do anything for money, even take a knife. The only person he cares about is his half brother Dol Ee. Shany and Geum Ja are dancers in clubs in Itaewon. They will sleep with anyone, even foreigners, for money. Shany and Geum Ja only have each other to lean on. Nam Ok and Jang Sook have their own fantasies about America and are obsessed by the American dream. Jang Po is an Itaewon mob boss who cruelly extorts money from the young people of Itaewon. These people fight each other with tragic consequences. Under the Itaewon sky, their suffering and tragic love continue.

Those Who Dance(1924)

1h 20min | Drama

A federal agent assigned to stop a bootlegging gang joins forces with the gang leader's wife and the sister of one of the ring's truck drivers to break up the gang.

Night of the Sinners(1991)

1h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love

Hiding from the police, a terrorist Aleksei accidentally gets into a brothel, where he meets a prostitute Lyubka. This just one night was worth two lives.

Directed by Vadim Kostromenko

Flames(1926)

1h | Drama

Railroad builder James Travers (George Nichols) wants his pretty daughter, Anne (Virginia Valli), to marry Herbert Landis, a young engineer (Eugene O'Brien). Unfortunately, Anne loves Landis...like a brother, and his rival, Hilary Fenton (Bryant Washburn), stands ready to snatch her up.

Directed by Lewis H. Moomaw - With Eugene O'Brien, Virginia Valli

Azad(2018)

2h 1min | Comedy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An off beat comedy drama set in modern day Pakistan about a free spirited RJ who hosts a morning show until a chance encounter leads him to confront his own ideas of freedom.

Directed by Rehan Sheikh

Up the Ladder(1925)

1h 1min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

An inventor invents a television telephone while going through some love troubles.

Fifty-Fifty(1925)

50min | Drama

Shortly after his marriage, a millionaire begins an affair with another woman. His wife tries to win him back by starting an affair herself.

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