Movies Like Homecoming
If you liked Homecoming (1948), a drama and romance movie directed by Mervyn LeRoy, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Doctor Zhivago (1965)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceThe 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 Walk in the Clouds (1995)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceWorld War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
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A Farewell to Arms (1957)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceAn English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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Everything, Everything (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceA teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
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South Pacific (1958)
★ 6.1/10Also romanceCan a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair?…
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Not as a Stranger (1955)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceLucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the…
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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceIn the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…
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Flying Tigers (1942)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaJim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots…
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The Secret Scripture (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceThe hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
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Wings (1927)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceTwo 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. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the…
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Casablanca (1943)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and romanceIn Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceBizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceA beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Carmen Jones (1954)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceIn this musical set in an all-Black army camp, civilian parachute maker and "hot bundle" Carmen Jones is desired by many of the men. Naturally, she wants Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot…
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Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceIn 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly…
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Persuasion (1995)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceIn early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening…
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Woman of Straw (1964)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAnthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
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The Clock (1945)
★ 7.1/10Also romance and dramaA G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and romanceThe spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.