Most Similar Movies to East of Eden (1955)


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The Member of the Wedding (1952), Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Sound and the Fury (1959), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Home From the Hill (1960), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960), A View From the Bridge (1961) ... Let's take a look at the following list...

The Member of the Wedding (1952)

The Member of the Wedding (1952)

6.9/10 Drama, Comedy

A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.

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Desire Under the Elms (1958)

Desire Under the Elms (1958)

6.5/10 Drama

Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.

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The Sound and the Fury (1959)

The Sound and the Fury (1959)

6.2/10 Drama

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.

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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

7.7/10 Romance, Drama

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

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Home From the Hill (1960)

Home From the Hill (1960)

7.4/10 Drama

Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.

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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

7.1/10 Drama

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish b...Read all

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A View From the Bridge (1961)

A View From the Bridge (1961)

6.8/10 Drama

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the...Read all

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All Fall Down (1962)

All Fall Down (1962)

6.8/10 Drama

Ralph (Karl Malden) and Annabell Willart (Dame Angela Lansbury) are a feuding couple who are constantly bickering over their worthless, good-for-nothing son Berry-Berry (Warren Beatty). When Berry-Berry begins yet another meaningless love affair, this time with an older woman named Echo O'Brien (Eva Marie Saint), he really gets his parents at each others' throats.

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Of Human Bondage (1946)

Of Human Bondage (1946)

6.4/10 Drama

A medical student with a club foot falls for a beautiful but ambitious waitress. She soon leaves him, but gets pregnant and comes back to him for help.

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Manon of the Spring (1986)

Manon of the Spring (1986)

8.0/10 Drama

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier.

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The Old Maid (1939)

The Old Maid (1939)

7.6/10 Drama

The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.

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Violent Summer (1959)

Violent Summer (1959)

7.5/10 Drama

Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance ...Read all

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Innocent Sinners (1958)

Innocent Sinners (1958)

6.9/10 Drama

A young girl in a bombed out part of London wants to make something beautiful so she plants a garden in a ruined church with the help of her friend. All the adults in her life don't understand why she wants to do this.

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The Fox (1968)

The Fox (1968)

6.6/10 Drama

Based on D.H. Lawrence's novella about two young women - sickly, chattering Jill Banford and quiet, strong Ellen March - who are trying, hopelessly, to run a chicken farm in Canada. A gentle but powerful man named Paul Grenfell who used to live on their farm returns and puts things in order. But his proposal of marriage to Ellen awakens the homosexuality dormant in th...Read all

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Of Mice and Men (1939)

Of Mice and Men (1939)

7.9/10 Drama

A mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

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Once Is Not Enough (1975)

Once Is Not Enough (1975)

4.5/10 Drama, Gay & Lesbian

A young woman goes home to New York after a long stay in Europe. Her former schoolmate introduces her to the decadence of New York and she ultimately falls in love with an older man who's a stand-in for her father, before tragedy strikes.

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Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)

Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)

7.5/10 Drama

An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.

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The Lower Depths (1957)

The Lower Depths (1957)

7.4/10 Drama

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

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