Movies like Coco Chanel: 20 to watch next
If you loved Coco Chanel (2008) — a drama and romance film directed by Christian Duguay — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Coco Chanel most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like rags to riches, based on true story and poverty. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover 2015★ 6.3
Shares: Romance, Drama
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mao’s Last Dancer 2009★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
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.
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Great Expectations 2012★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, Romance
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Breathe 2017★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, Romance
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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An Autumn Romance 2021★ 7.0
Shares: Romance, Drama
When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who wants to renovate it.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Secret: Dare to Dream 2020★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, Romance
A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Nine Lives 2005★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Romance
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
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Mansfield Park 1999★ 6.7
Shares: Romance, Drama
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Turtles All the Way Down 2024★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
17-year-old Aza Holmes tries be a good daughter, a good friend, and a good student, all while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts that she cannot control. When she reconnects with Davis, her childhood crush, Aza is confronted with fundamental questions about her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Wuthering Heights 1970★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, Romance
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Christmas Cottage 2008★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Won't Back Down 2012★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Love Everlasting 2016★ 7.4
Shares: Romance, Drama
Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Portrait of a Lady 1996★ 5.9
Shares: Drama, Romance
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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The Secret Scripture 2017★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
Stream in India on Plex
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Wuthering Heights 1939★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Place in the Sun 1951★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Lovely, Still 2009★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Howards End 1992★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Romance
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now