The Proud and the Beautiful

The Proud and the Beautiful

Strips Bare of Prim Morality a Side of Love That Women Won't Admit - Even to Themselves!

Directed by Yves Allégret

Produced by Reforma Films, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique

1953103 min6.7 / 10

A melancholic, morally complex drama set amid disease and decay in a Mexican village, exploring forbidden desire and the collision between passion and social constraint.

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Proud and the Beautiful sad? Yes, very. More sad than 91% of films.

  • Does The Proud and the Beautiful end with hope? Not especially. Less hopeful than 70% of films.

  • Is The Proud and the Beautiful violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Is The Proud and the Beautiful easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is The Proud and the Beautiful scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

56/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity56

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise58

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love55

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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