Movies like Anna and the King: 20 to watch next
If you loved Anna and the King (1999) — a drama, romance and history film directed by Andy Tennant — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Anna and the King most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like daughter, death penalty and civil war. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Anna and the King of Siam 1946★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The King and I 1956★ 7.1
Shares: Romance, History, Drama
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Lady 2011★ 6.8
Shares: History, Drama, Romance
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Gone with the Wind 1939★ 7.9
Shares: Drama, Romance
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Private Peaceful 2012★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Tess 1979★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, Romance
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Jude 1996★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mayerling 1968★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that doesn't realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales, later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief. Rudolf finds refuge from a loveless marriage with Princess Stéphanie by taking a mistress, Baroness Maria Vetsera. Their untimely demise at Mayerling, the imperial family's hunting lodge, is cloaked in mystery.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957★ 7.8
Shares: Drama, History
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
Stream in India on Netflix, Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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The Young Victoria 2009★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, History, Romance
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Anna Karenina 2012★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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War and Peace 1956★ 6.6
Shares: Romance, Drama, History
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Far from the Madding Crowd 1967★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History, Romance
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful and flirtatious young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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In Love and War 1996★ 5.9
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Victoria & Abdul 2017★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Memoirs of a Geisha 2005★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The New World 2005★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, History, Romance
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Band of Angels 1957★ 6.3
Shares: Romance, Drama, History
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Reds 1981★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History, Romance
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Other Boleyn Girl 2008★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Romance, History
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Stream in India on Netflix, JioHotstar