Most Similar Movies to A City of Sadness (1989)
If you are looking for movies like A City of Sadness (1989), you might like movies tagged with keyword : history, family, tragedy, war, politics, society, culture, humanity, conflict, memory, identity, power, oppression, survival, brothers, love, loyalty, betrayal, sacrifice, suffering .
No News From God (2001), The Best of Youth (2002), Violent Summer (1959), The Promised Land (1975), Partition (2007), Adanggaman (2000), In Times of Fading Light (2017) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
No News From God (2001)
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
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The Best of Youth (2002)
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.
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Violent Summer (1959)
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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The Promised Land (1975)
At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew and a German, pool their money together to build a factory. The movie follows their ruthless pursuit of fortune.
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Partition (2007)
During the turmoil and violence of Partition, a Sikh ex-soldier, haunted by war, offers shelter to a young Muslim woman who has been separated from her family.
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Adanggaman (2000)
In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman's attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his c...Read all
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In Times of Fading Light (2017)
A family of German communists becomes caught on the wrong side of history.
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Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.
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Before the Rain (1994)
This acclaimed Macedonian drama presents intersecting romantic storylines set both in that country and abroad. A young monk named Kiril (Grégoire Colin) becomes involved with Zamira (Labina Mitevska), an Albanian girl accused of murder, while far away in London, Aleksander (Rade Serbedzija), a weary photojournalist, meets with his married lover, Anne (Katrin Cartlidge). When Aleksander returns to his Macedonian village, his life crosses paths with characters from earlier in the film.
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Proud (2004)
The true story of one of only two U.S. Navy ships that saw combat in World War II with African-American crews.
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The Clay Bird (2002)
In East Pakistan a strict Muslim (Jayanto Chattopadhyay) enrolls his young son (Nurul Islam Bablu) in an Islamic school, where the boy befriends the class outcast (Russell Farazi).
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The Promise (2016)
An Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac) and an American photojournalist (Christian Bale) compete for the love of the same woman (Charlotte Le Bon) as the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war-torn chaos.
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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
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Life Is a Miracle (2004)
What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
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Kamchatka (2002)
The film is seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, Harry (Matías del Pozo), who does not know that Argentina's 1976 coup d'état is impacting his life. After witnessing the "disappearance" of dissident friends, a human rights lawyer (Ricardo Darín) and his research scientist wife (Cecilia Roth) flee the city and hide from the military police in a vacant summer ho...Read all
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The Wedding Song (2008)
The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewish woman who are both preparing for their marriages.
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The Promise (2016)
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
A Serbian soldier (Goran Kostic) and his Bosnian lover (Zana Marjanovic) find their allegiances becoming uncertain as their nation's brutal ethnic conflict takes its toll.
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