Movies Similar to The Tragedy of King Christophe

Seven Crosses in a Notebook(1983)

Heading South(2006)

A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.

Körsbärsträdgården(1970)

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

Tuntematon sotilas(2009)

Kristian Smeds's sensational debut at the National Theater. Smeds's adaptation of Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier had a powerful impact even on those who had not seen the play. In the National Theater's interpretation, modernity and intensity are strongly present throughout the play. The cast includes Antti Luusuaniemi, Kristo Salminen, and Jaakko Kytömaa.

Diskrummet(1974)

About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.

Nattcafé(1965)

Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night

I lodjurets timma(1989)

A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.

Färdknäpp(1991)

Dennis feels he's had enough of the cozy middle-class life in the suburbia. Before the middle-age (and John Denver's records) puts him down he wants to break away from everything. Unfortunately his wife Pauline and their friends William and Jane don't make it easy for him. To make matters worse, there seems to be some young punks vandalizing the neighborhood, but it's definitely not the ones everyone seem to believe it is.

The Man by the Shore(1993)

Early 1960s Haiti during 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's dictatorship seen through the eyes of a young girl whose family has suffered heavily.

Between Hamburg and Haiti(1940)

A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In search of her, he finds her in Mexico as the secretary of his former lover, a writer.

Lydia Bailey(1952)

A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.

Kidnapping Inc.(2025)

A group of kidnappers take the son of a wealthy presidential candidate in Haiti. Doc and Zoe are two amateur gangsters tasked with delivering the young man to their ruthless boss. With a hitman on their trail, Zoe accidentally kills the hostage. Panicked, Doc and Zoe come across Patrick and his very pregnant wife Laura. Patrick looks exactly like the senator’s dead son. Doc and Zoe decide to abduct the couple and replace the candidate's son with Patrick.

Muntra fruarna i Windsor(1998)

A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.

Murder in Pacot(2014)

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, a middle-aged Port-au-Prince couple come face to face with the stark contradictions of Haitian society when they are forced to rent out their villa to a foreign aid worker and his enterprising local girlfriend.

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming(1983)

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.

Kamraterna(1982)

Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society, for example the property rights of married women.

Stängda dörrar(1981)

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

Lek ej med kärleken(1961)

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

Misantropen(1963)

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

Solange(2023)

Solange wants her stuff back. She moved out of town five years ago and now returns to retrieve her belongings, which she left in boxes at friends' homes.