Magnificent Obsession
Aug 07, 1954 | IMDB 6.8
108 min Watch NowDrama, Romance
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Undercurrent
Far from Heaven
Easy Living
Lord Jim
The Malatily Bathhouse
Tommy
The Bricklayers
Hot
The Natural
Deception
Once for Ever
Turnipseed: Legacy
Turnipseed
Diary of Fireflies
A Christmas Carol
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Tehachapi
Downeast
Christmas in August
The Castle
SIMILAR MOVIES
Undercurrent
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 1956
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.Far from Heaven
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 2002
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.Easy Living
IMDB 4.8 | Sep , 2017
Sherry Graham, a self-destructive makeup saleswoman, hopes a new man and business venture will provide her a fresh start. After her plans are foiled, she takes control of her life in a dramatic turn of events.Lord Jim
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1965
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.The Malatily Bathhouse
IMDB 5.5 | Jul , 1973
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.Tommy
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1975
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.The Bricklayers
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1976
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.Hot
IMDB 0 | May , 2015
A rumor spreads through a small desert town that a girl has been raped. A respected veteran tries to stop the girl's cousin, a soldier in vacation, from taking the law into his own hands.The Natural
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1984
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.Deception
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1946
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.Once for Ever
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1993
A man, who is planning to emigrate from the country, has reached agreement with his wife to be separated from her. The woman is a war refugee and decides to return to her home town in the south of Khuzistan province. On the day of separation the woman realizes she is pregnant, and now the man has to modify his plans to face the new situation.Turnipseed: Legacy
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2015
Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. once again stars as John Turnipseed in the 3rd and final film of the Turnipseed trilogy. Torn from an idyllic life with a loving extended family in 1960's Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized, and empty cupboards. AB Turnipseed's alcoholism started a chain reaction of poverty, violence, addiction and despair that nearly destroyed three generations. From lost and frightened little boy to gang leader, drug dealer and pimp, to one of the nation's most respected pioneers of community restoration, this is a story of transformation and restoration told with honesty, and contagious hope.Turnipseed
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2009
This is a story of tragic loss and blessed gain. This is the story of John Turnipseed, who spent his youth fighting disadvantages and hardship, learning life by making the greatest mistakes. Mistakes that cost him a life he created and 10 years in prison, after which he came into The Fathering Center at Urban Ventures and now has built a program that reaches 600 men and 200 women. This is a story of truth.Diary of Fireflies
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 2016
Devastated by the loss of both parents to cancer, a medical student drops out of school and meets a firebrand photographer with a lust for life.A Christmas Carol
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1938
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.Steamboat Bill, Jr.
IMDB 7.6 | May , 1928
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.Tehachapi
IMDB 7.6 | Jun , 2024
French visual artist-director JR situates his latest social-art intervention in a Southern Californian supermax prison, where he has imagined an enormously ambitious collaboration with the facility’s inmates.Downeast
IMDB 6.8 | Mar , 2021
Dives into the often ignored seedy underbelly of Maine and it follows Emma Maddox as she returns to her hometown years following the mysterious death of her brother, Mikey. As she reconnects with his best friend Tommy, the two rekindle their flame and Emma begins to uncover the web of lies the town has been keeping.Christmas in August
IMDB 7.7 | Jan , 1998
It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his condition. Is their relationship doomed before it even begins?The Castle
IMDB 6.1 | Sep , 1997
When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles.