Movies (148) tagged by 'Melodrama'
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Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001)
Yashovardhan Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) is well-distinguished extravagantly well-respected man with a foundation of a strong business empire. He lives a lavis...
Imitation of Life (1959)
When they first meet, Lora Meredith and Annie Johnson have a good deal in common. They are both single mothers struggling to make a life for themselves and the...
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
50th Anniversary! SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, 1961, Warner Bros., 124 min. Natalie Wood gives her greatest performance as an anguished teenager in ...
Milenge Milenge (2010)
Milenge Milenge is a story of love and destiny between Priya (Kareena Kapoor) a student and an assistant choreographer in Mumbai and Amit (Shahid Kapoor) who l...
The Fountainhead (1949)
Individualistic and idealistic architect Howard Roark is expelled from college because his designs fail to fit with existing architectural thinking. He seems u...
On Our Own (1988)
Four children set out on their own after their mother's death to avoid being separated by foster care. Trying to find their Uncle Jack, they encounter adventur...
Arth (1982)
Mrs Pooja Malhotra an orphan by birth is facing a crises. Her husband Inder Malhotra, an advertising film executive has thrown away his rather secure job. The...
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Erica seemingly has the perfect life until her husband informs her he's leaving her for another woman...
Earthquake (1974)
An architect (Charlton Heston) tries to rescue his estranged wife (Ava Gardner) and find his mistress after an earthquake hits Los Angeles. ...
Clara's Heart (1988)
David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to ...
Airport (1970)
A snowstorm, a mired plane, an elderly stowaway and the bombing of a passenger jet plague an airport manager.
Hazard of Hearts, A (1987)
Compulsive gambler, Sir Giles Staverley is tricked into gambling away his home by his old adversary Lord Harry Wrotham. As Staverley is distraught and desperat...
Life Like (2019)
An idealistic attractive young couple acquires a stunning, life-like robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will ...
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Cary Scott is a prosperous suburban New England widow with two college-aged children. Ron Kirby is a nurseryman and gardener. Cary and Ron meet when he's pruni...
Baby Sister (1983)
Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in boyfriend ...
Born Innocent (1974)
A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, ...
The Last Tycoon (1976)
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Heyy Babyy (2007)
Arush Mehra lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in Sydney, Australia along with two room-mates, Tanmay Joglekar, and Ali Hyder. He works for a food chain, while Ta...
Neel Kamal (1968)
In this tale of the supernatural, the past and the present begin to merge when a happily married couple (Manoj Kumar and Waheeda Rehman) visits a ruined mauso...
Dragonwyck (1946)
When Miranda Wells was invited to live with her dark and charming distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryan in order to school his daughter at Dragonwyyck manor she was...
Portrait of Jennie (1949)
Eben Adams is a struggling artist in Depression era New York who has never been able to find inspiration for a painting. One day, after he finally finds someon...
Serena (2014)
In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when it is learned that his wife, Serena, cannot bear child...
Home from the Hill (1960)
Captain Wade Hunnicutt is the wealthiest and most powerful citizen in his Texan town; he is also a notorious womanizer, which has turned his wife Hannah against...
Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime (1978)
As Pandit Shyam Sunder prayed in Bhagwan Shivji's temple on the occasion of Janamashtami, his wife gives birth to a daughter, Rupa, and passes away, leaving her...
Nothing in Common (1986)
David Basner is a successful advertising executive who has it all: Money, happiness, and women who want him. Then one day his world falls apart when his mother ...
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
An ex-convict dentist (James Cagney) recalls his wife (Olivia de Havilland) and another man's wife (Rita Hayworth), in circa-1900 New York. ...
Wildlife (2018)
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
A Face to Die For (1996)
A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns...
Street Angel (1928)
A young woman on the run from the police joins a traveling circus and falls in love with a painter. A silent movie with talking sequences. ...
The Miracle Woman (1931)
After Florence Fallon's father is fired from the church where he preached for many years, she becomes embittered and loses faith. She teams up with Horsby, a ...
Between Friends (1983)
Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
Born to Win (1972)
A smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J.J. (George Segal) spends his days looking for just "one more fix".
Die bleierne Zeit (1981)
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally differ...
Suzy (1936)
American showgirl Suzy is in London in 1914. She loves Irish inventor Terry who works for an engineering firm owned by a German woman. After their marriage Terr...
The Fireman (1916)
Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his...
Lying Lips (1939)
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison. However, her friend, w...
Palomino (1991)
After the break up of her marriage, photographer Samantha Taylor retreats to the sanctuary of friend Caroline Lord's California ranch. An excellent rider, Saman...
Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee (2007)
Mumbai-based former collegians, Manish Gupta, Rajeev Arora, Ishita Sharma, Monica Seth, and Jai Gokhale, end up in a lock-up during the month of May 2000. This ...
Sinners Holiday (1930)
Ma Delano (LaVerne) runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons (Cagney & Gallagher) and daughter (Knapp.) Story involves rum-running, ac...
Celine und Julie fahren Boot (1974)
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel rea...
The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)
A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local popula...
Carnival Story (1954)
In search of better business, a big American carnival opens in Munich, Germany. Joe the barker befriends attractive pickpocket Willie, finds her a job, and bed...
The Last Mile (1932)
Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convict...
Executive Suite (1954)
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice-presidents vie to see who will replace him.
Danielle Steel - Nur einmal im Leben (1994)
Millions adored Daphne Fields, for she shared their passion, their pain, their joy, and their sorrow. America's most popular novelist remained a closed book. Sh...
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.
Symphonie des Herzens (1954)
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the ...
The Unknown Trilogy (2008)
Somewhere, between the boundaries of life and death, lays the darkest places in the human heart. In these dimly lit recesses crouch fears older than mankind its...
Changes (1991)
Beautiful and successful television news anchor Melanie Adams falls in love with renowned heart transplant surgeon Peter Hallam. After a whirlwind courtship, th...
Just Around the Corner (1938)
A rich engineer ruined by the depression and working as a janitor has a daughter (Temple) who befriends a millionaire who backs her Dad's engineering plans.
Another Woman (1994)
After a brutal attack leaves Lisa Temple without her memory, her husband declares that she is another woman. She begins to find out just what that means when sh...
Morgen ist die Ewigkeit (1946)
Elizabeth and John say good-bye as John leaves to go to war. When the war ends, Elizabeth receives a telegram that John has been killed in action. She finds com...
Promise (1986)
When his mother dies, Bob not only inherits her house, but also the custody of his younger brother, who suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy. At the age of 2...
She Wronged Him Right (1934)
Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama.
God's Little Acre (1958)
A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that desi...
Torch Song (1993)
A movie star with an alcohol problem goes into rehabilitation where she meets a firefighter with similar problems.
Roar of the Press (1941)
While on their honeymoon, a reporter and his new bride stumble upon a ring of fifth columnists.
City Streets (1931)
Nan, a racketeer's daughter, is in love with The Kid, a shooting gallery showman. Despite Nan's prodding, The Kid has no ambitions about joining the rackets and...
High School Confidential (1958)
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. As he moves his way up the ladder, a schoolteacher tries to reform him, ...
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
The residents of Peyton Place, New Hampshire, are not happy when its most famous resident, Alison Mackenzie, writes a "shocking" novel detailing the sinful secr...
The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and ...
On My Last Breath (2007)
Two men trying to find themselves in the midst of WWII Germany. This tale is not about the war that rages around them, but the struggle inside the heart. Lieute...
Run Simon Run (1970)
A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.
Raintree County (1957)
A graduating poet/teacher falls in love with a Southern woman, and then the Civil War and her past create problems.
The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978)
Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend their summer in their hometown of Bishop, Cal...
Lost, Lonely and Vicious (1958)
Rising young male movie star, bizarrely preoccupied with death and involved with his older-woman dramatic coach, meets an innocent sweet-young-thing.
Attorney for the Defense (1932)
An ambitious lawyer uses circumstantial evidence to help convict an innocent man then tries to make amends with his family.
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.
You Only Live Once (1937)
The public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of cont...
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted...
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
The fact that an Indian tribe is eating puppies starts an action packed battle in a western town.
Power of the Press (1943)
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His...
Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
When Empress Catherine of France launches an attack on French Protestants known as Huguenots, the Comte de la Roche saves the life of his enemy, the Huguenot Ru...
The Girl from Chicago (1932)
An undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He re...
An Arcadian Maid (1910)
A young girl looking for work, is hired by a farmer's wife to work as a maid. A smooth talking peddler comes by the farm, and flirts with the young maid. He...
Action of the Tiger (1957)
Carson is an American contraband runner approached by Tracy, a French woman who wants him to help rescue her brother from Albania where he is being held as a po...
Written on the Wind (1956)
Mitch Wayne and Kyle Hadley, the playboy son of an oil tycoon, have been best friends since childhood. Kyle's wild sister, Marylee, hopes to marry Mitch, but he...
Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017)
In 1950, amid-st the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight. Frantic, scared...
The Living Idol (1957)
Several mysterious deaths are attributed to an ancient stone idol.
Fine Things (1990)
Standard romantic melodrama from novelist Danielle Steele finds a couple embroiled in marital conflict with a nasty child-custody battle at its center.
Tizoc (1957)
A white woman enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian. The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be insurmountable, resulting in tragedy.
Stay the Night (1992)
Based on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who will stop at nothing to be together without any ridicule. "St...
The Unknown Trilogy (2007)
Somewhere, between the boundaries of life and death, lays the darkest places in the human heart. In these dimly lit recesses crouch fears older than mankind its...
Sins of Man (1936)
Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born ...
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
A crazed killer known as "The Spinebreaker" is terrorizing London with a series of grisly murders. The police seem powerless to stop him.
Romance de fieras (1954)
One morning, Javier Ponce (Joaquín Cordero), a young unemployed lawyer, is buying the newspaper when he hears a gunshot in a cafe nearby. He enters and sees a m...
Tomorrow's Children (1934)
A young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her pare...
Teddy at the Throttle (1917)
Gloria Dawn lives down the hall from her sweetheart, Bobbie Knight. The dishonest Henry Black is Gloria's guardian, and he is also in charge of Bobbie's...
Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt (1929)
On his honeymoon with a bride he has wed for business reasons, a man falls for a woman who is in the clutches of a sinister character.After this woman begs him ...
Gambling Ship (1933)
Tired of the dangerous life as gambling boss, Ace Corbin 'retires' from the racket and travels cross-country by train to begin a new life with a new name. On th...
My Woman (1933)
Spirited singer and dancer Connie (Helen Twelvetrees) charms a radio station executive, John Bradley (Victor Jory), when he spots her performing in a Panama nig...
Based on an Untrue Story (1993)
Perfume creator Satin Chow is about to reveal her new designer scent 'Puppy' when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia which ...
The Guiding Light (1953)
13-year old Bruce Lee plays San, a child up for adoption. Finally accepted by his surrogate parents, he is faced with a dilemma when his real parents show up an...
The Girl Who Came Between Them (1990)
A home is divided when a 13-year-old Vietnamese girl moves in with a family of an ex-GI who believes that she may be his illegitimate daughter.
The Man from Home (1922)
An American heiress's fiancé saves a fisherman accused of stabbing his wife.
BUtterfield 8 (1960)
A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.
The Constant Nymph (1943)
The daughter of a musical mentor is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband, a handsome composer.
The Primrose Path (1925)
Bruce Armstrong (MacDonald) is quite wealthy. He is also a drinker, a gambler, and pretty much worthless as a human being. For some reason, Marilyn Merrill (Bow...
Onimasa (1982)
A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa, his adopted daughter Matsue, and his biological daughter Hanako.
The Flight of the Swan (2011)
Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolut...
Maddalena (1973)
Maddalena is a sensuous woman who desperately tries to seduce a tormented priest.
Woman with a Past (1992)
A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in flashback...
A Woman Scorned (1911)
Thieves follow a doctor as he takes home a large sum of money. Later, when they break into his house, the doctor's wife and daughter are trapped. One of the...
She Lives! (1973)
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
The Unfortunate Marriage (1917)
Based on the classic Wilkie Collins novel The Woman In White.
Hell Is a Place Called Hollywood (1950)
A beauty queen called Sheila Anderson wins a part in a Hollywood motion picture. The film turns out to be a cheap nudie film, she is then shunned by the theatri...
Rumble on the Docks (1956)
It's West Side Story, which was common back then.
Haepi Nyu Ieo (2021)
A heartwarming and romantic melodrama about the guests and employees that work at Hotel Emros around the New Year's holiday.
Stolen Hours (1965)
Mike, a famed racing driver and an old flame of hers, is worried that Laura may be ill. Tricking her into a doctor's examination, she discovers she is; a b...
The Unwritten Law (1985)
A low-class prostitute is being framed to murder a young, rich businessman.
Les possédés (1988)
In 1870 Russia, a group of young and idealistic anarchists plots to overthrow the established order through violent means.
The Wicked Go to Hell (1955)
Two convicts wind up in a small house by the sea where they meet a gorgeous girl whose lover they savagely kill.
You Can Live Forever (2022)
When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair ...
Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992)
A down-syndrome boy is left in an institute by his parents. Ginny, who works in the institute wants to have custody over Jonathan but has to fight the system an...
Black Oxen (1923)
A Manhattan playboy falls in love with a mysterious European woman, whom he notices as an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the...
So Big! (1932)
Following the death of Selena's father, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.
The Salvation Army Lass (1909)
Mary Wilson, a neglected child of the slums, falls in with Bob Walton, a tough denizen of the lower east side, and loves him with a pure, honest affection that ...
I Met My Love Again (1938)
College sweethearts Julie and Ives have planned to marry. Their plans go amiss when Julie meets a weak writer and runs off to marry him. After her husband dies,...
Mexicali Rose (1929)
A drama set in a border town gambling saloon. The owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of t...
By No Means (2019)
"By No Means" depicts a recurrent family drama. An ambitious husband travels a lot. Wife, left alone, seeks fulfillment outside the marriage. The antique glass ...
Aaina (1977)
Retired Ram Shastri is an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin who lives in a small Indian village and has a huge family which consists of his wife, Savitri, five daughter...
Shadowlands (2018)
Shadowlands is an anthology style series that explores love in three separate stories - a couple renegotiating a relationship, a narcissist grasping to comprehe...
Enchantment (1963)
Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. Howev...
Tabor ukhodit v nebo (1976)
Rada, a beautiful and very proud gipsy girl is used to steal men's hearts and monk them. Zobar is a horse thief who's heart is stolen by Rada and his ...
Of One Blood (1944)
Orphaned brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, and work to rid their city of a bootlegging gang.
Portrait from Life (1949)
Intrigued by the portrait of a Jewish girl at a London art gallery, a British Army Major attempts to find her amongst the refugees living in various camps for d...
Back Pay (1922)
Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her, she leaves her village and g...
East of Fifth Avenue (1933)
Heavyhearted melodrama centering on the tenants of a modest New York City rooming house.
Babah (2024)
As Isyak and his daughter Maya face the ups and downs of life, from losing a job to battling illness and the loss of hearing, their strong bond reveals the endu...
Looking for Her (2022)
Taylor is headed home for the holidays and her family is finally ready to meet her girlfriend Jess--but Jess isn't her girlfriend anymore. Taylor holds ope...
Lo scugnizzo (1979)
Gennarino is a Neapolitan orphan boy. He lives with Angela his adoptive mother, a former famous singer now fallen in the dust. She has a serious illness, and th...
Continental Split (2024)
When a fault threatens to split the U.S., a desperate team of seismologists and government agents race to prevent disaster as the clock ticks down.
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