Movies like Underground
If Underground's mix of love triangle, love at first sight and subway stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Underground's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Wings
1927 · Directed by William A. Wellman · 144 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle, silent film · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (1920s)
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I.
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The Crowd
1928 · Directed by King Vidor · 98 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: silent film · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (1920s)
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous,…
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Doctor Zhivago
1965 · Directed by David Lean · 200 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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A Place in the Sun
1951 · Directed by George Stevens · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: love at first sight · Also drama and 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.
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Persuasion
2007 · Directed by Adrian Shergold · 93 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago.
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West Side Story
1961 · Directed by Jerome Robbins · 153 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: love at first sight · Also drama and romance
In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
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Love at First Sight
2023 · Directed by Vanessa Caswill · 91 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: love at first sight · Also romance and drama
Hadley and Oliver begin falling in love on a flight from New York to London, but when they lose each other at customs, can they defy all odds to reunite?
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It Ends with Us
2024 · Directed by Justin Baldoni · 131 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for…
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
2022 · Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre · 126 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: 1920s · Also drama and romance
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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Cyrano
2021 · Directed by Joe Wright · 122 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel.
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Les Misérables
2012 · Directed by Tom Hooper · 158 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle, love at first sight
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert.