Movies like The Woman on the Beach: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Woman on the Beach (1947) — a drama film directed by Jean Renoir — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Woman on the Beach most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), love triangle and mine. 6 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Look Back in Anger 1959★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Scarlet Street 1945★ 7.6
Shares: Drama
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
Stream in India on Artiflix, Brew, JustWatch TV Beta
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Act of Violence 1949★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Interiors 1978★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity and resentment, Renata, a successful writer; Joey, a woman crippled by indecision; and Flyn, a budding actress; struggle to communicate for the sake of their shattered mother. But when their father unexpectedly falls for another woman, his decision to remarry sets in motion a terrible twist of fate…
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Locket 1946★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Woman's Face 1941★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
Stream in India on Artiflix
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Come Back, Little Sheba 1953★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Sunset Boulevard 1950★ 8.3
Shares: Drama
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Truth About Emanuel 2013★ 6.0
Shares: Drama
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Upstream Color 2013★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Pitfall 1948★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Caine Mutiny 1954★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The File on Thelma Jordon 1949★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
Stream in India on Plex
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Small Things Like These 2024★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls 1947★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hell's Angels 1930★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany. As a love triangle develops involving Monte, Roy, and Roy's girlfriend, Helen, the brothers' disparate personalities, and Monte's cowardice in the face of war soon threaten to compromise a top-secret bombing mission over German territory.
Stream in India on Artiflix
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Framed 1947★ 6.5
Shares: Drama
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
Stream in India on JustWatch TV Beta
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At Eternity's Gate 2018★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Woman of Straw 1964★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Blue Dahlia 1946★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now