Movies like malena

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

The attractive Malena listen to after telling the history of her life. Her treasure is not just an emerald that she inherits from her grandfather, but the key to discover the path of her existence, the eternal fight with her sister, and the passionate relationships with men. Based on the bestselling novel by Amanda Grandes.

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

In a famous Havana cigar factory, Gricel La Lectora makes her way to her rostrum and microphone, where she regales the workers with a specially curated mix of interesting articles, novels, poetry and diversions. Gricel is one of the last people to hold this storied position.

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Single father Lung (by Ronald CHENG) and his daughter Ying (by FU Shun Ying) are each other’s only dependence. Despite the huge debt left by his ex-wife, Lung believes in good karma for good people, until he loses his beloved daughter in a kidnap while travelling in Thailand. Lung abandons all his faith. He marries a Thai Chinese, Lan (by Chrissie CHAU) and starts a new life in Thailand, but he never leaves the past behind. All these years he has been gathering information of the kidnap gang, and vows to take justice into his own hands at any cost…