Movies Similar to The Happy Warrior

Remember(1926)

Directed by David Selman. With Dorothy Phillips, Earl Metcalfe, Lola Todd, Lincoln Stedman.

Punch and Jody(1974)

When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?

La Strada(1954)

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

The Reward of the Faithless(1917)

A woman who is presumed dead takes revenge on her unfaithful husband.

Saving the Family Name(1916)

A chorus girl gains infamy after the suicide of her beau.

Princess Virtue(1917)

The daughter of a disowned upper class Bostonian finds acceptance in Parisian society.

The Mysterious Mrs. M(1917)

A depressed man grows to love life just as his fortune teller's predictions become dire.

Big Fish(2003)

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

The Tin Drum(1979)

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Behind the Lines(1916)

The daughter of an American diplomat is forced to spy for Mexican revolutionaries.

The End of the Rainbow(1916)

The daughter of a lumber man disguises herself and gets hired as the secretary of her father's rival.

Gloriana(1916)

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.

The Rainbow Princess(1916)

Hope has an act in a traveling circus where she is "the rainbow princess" and performs a Hula dance. The owner of the circus pawns the girl off on Judge Daingerfield as his long-lost granddaughter. Hope goes to live with the judge, and to the horror of his upstanding family, insists on having the circus performers over as her guests. But the whole ruse, unbeknownst to her, is so that the circus owner's sons can rob the judge.

Plebeian(1915)

Based on the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.

Sashka The Seminarian(1915)

Blood Need Not Be Spilled(1917)

Little Ellie(1918)

A perverted town mayor murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on the short story La petite Roque by Guy de Maupassant.

The Child of Another(1919)

All the Real Girls(2003)

In a sleepy little mill town in North Carolina, Paul is the town Romeo. But when his best friend's sister returns home from boarding school, he finds himself falling for her innocent charm. In spite of her lack of experience and the violent protests of her brother, the two find themselves in a sweet, dreamy and all-consuming love.

Crimi Clowns 2.0: Scum(2016)

The Tersago family isn't your average family business: clowns by day, thieves by night. They get arrested following a robbery homicide in a villa in Brasschaat, but let off for lack of evidence, except for son Wesley. Wesley's sister Amber decides to finish Wesley's wacky reality movie herself. Father Ronny wants to get out of organized crime and launder the stolen money with the production of a musical. Ronny and his companion Lou get approached by two police inspectors entirely convinced of their involvement with the robbery homicide. The stolen money is rumored to belong to a powerful Russian drug lord. The Tersago's now realize their lives are in danger. An armed man slips into the theater during the premiere of the musical while son Wesley plans an escape from prison.