Most Similar Movies to Way Down East (1935)
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True Heart Susie (1919), Stella Maris (1918), The Sisters (1938), Fanny (1932), The Black Orchid (1959), A Romance of Happy Valley (1919), Madame X (1929) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

True Heart Susie (1919)
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge. Eventually he rises to a position of success and sophistication, and Susie realizes that she has through her own efforts raised him to a level where he is inaccessible to her.
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Stella Maris (1918)
Two young women - a paraplegic girl sheltered by her wealthy guardians and a more experienced orphan - fall in love with a man separated from his violent wife.
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The Sisters (1938)
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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Fanny (1932)
Marius (Pierre Fresnay) goes to sea, pregnant Fanny (Orane Demazis) marries, and Cesar (Raimu) is a godfather in part two of the Marseille trilogy.
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The Black Orchid (1959)
Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren star as longtime widower Frank and recently widowed Rose, lonely hearts who discover something special in The Black Orchid, a sensitive comedy romance directed by Martin Ritt (Norma Rae, Murphy's Romance).
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A Romance of Happy Valley (1919)
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man.
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Madame X (1929)
A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.
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A Woman of Affairs (1928)
When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.
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Madame X (1966)
When her lover is killed, the wife of a wealthy man is convinced to fake her own death, which leads her into greater depths of depravity until fate reunites her with her long-lost son, who is unaware of her real identity.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
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Love Never Dies (1921)
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him, and he leaves town. Her father leads Tilly to believe that John has died in an accident, and he pushes her to marry someone else.
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Female (1933)
An auto-company president (Ruth Chatterton) finds her right-hand man (George Brent) by process of elimination.
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To Each His Own (1946)
An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
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Seventh Heaven (1927)
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
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We Live Again (1934)
Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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And One Was Beautiful (1940)
A woman lets a family friend take the blame after she accidentally runs over a man with a car.
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The Bramble Bush (1960)
A handsome and successful young doctor returns to his home town in New England to see his dying friend for one last time. However, his friend wants to die because he is suffering so much from his illness, and he manages to convince the doctor to commit euthanasia (a mercy killing) on him. Haunted by what he has done, and troubled further still by other dark secrets fr...Read all
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No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
Told she is dying, a young mother (Margaret Sullavan) hides it from her husband (Wendell Corey) and encourages his girlfriend (Viveca Lindfors).
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