Most Similar Movies to Island in the Sun (1957)
If you are looking for movies like Island in the Sun (1957), you might like movies tagged with keyword : romance, drama, race relations, social class, colonialism, forbidden love, politics, identity, betrayal, power struggle, cultural conflict, historical, love triangle, social change, racial discrimination, independence movement, passion, loyalty, family secrets, social norms .
The Sleeping Dictionary (2003), Ryan's Daughter (1970), Solomon and Gaenor (1999), Dance With a Stranger (1985), Jassy (1948), Fire Down Below (1957), Imitation of Life (1959) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
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Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
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Solomon and Gaenor (1999)
A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish
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Dance With a Stranger (1985)
A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.
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Jassy (1948)
In 17th. century England, Jassy is believed a witch because she has sometimes visions of approaching disasters. When Barney Hatton, an impoverished gentry whose gambling father has lost the family home, helps her anyway she will not forget and will try to help him have his property back - at any price?
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Fire Down Below (1957)
The friendship between two tramp boat owners is threatened by the arrival of a beautiful and seductive passenger.
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Imitation of Life (1959)
An aspiring actress befriends a black widow, but trouble arises when the latter is rejected by her daughter, who tries to pass for white.
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Room at the Top (1959)
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
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A Slave of Love (1976)
A fate of popular film actress during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War.
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The Rose Tattoo (1955)
A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.
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A Summer Place (1959)
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
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Water for Elephants (2011)
Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a travelling circus and falls in love with the ringmaster's wife.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
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I Loved a Woman (1933)
Art student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father's meat packing business on his father's death. He marries social climber Martha who taunts him for his ideals regarding worker happiness and meat purity. He begins supporting the musical career of singer Laura. During the Spanish American war he sells the Army tainted meat. Martha puts detecti...Read all
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A Promise (2013)
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
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Cal (1984)
A young IRA recruit (John Lynch) has an affair with the widow (Helen Mirren) of a slain Ulster policeman.
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Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
A young female landowner in 1840s Jamaica marries a just-arrived Englishman to avoid losing her property. All seems to be perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. Slowly, this secret begins to erode this perfect relationship and, perhaps, her mother's story will begin again...with her.
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Effi Briest (2009)
Ambitious German imperial hussars veteran baron Geert von Instetten takes office as coastal district administrator, hoping to e promoted to the colonies. His childhood love, Luise, married local estate owner von Briest and now arranges for their daughter, Effie, to wed the baron, rather then her beloved cousin Dagobert. In his creepy home, built and filled with exotic...Read all
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