Movies Like Gaby
If you liked Gaby (1956), a drama and romance movie directed by Curtis Bernhardt, 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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The End of the Affair (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaOn a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is…
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Waterloo Bridge (1940)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceOn the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
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Their Finest (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaDuring the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook…
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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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Blitz (2024)
★ 6/10Also dramaIn World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined to return to his family, George embarks on an epic, perilous journey back…
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
★ 7/10Also romanceIn 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an…
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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceReporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic…
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The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceA young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.
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Head in the Clouds (2004)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceGilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career…
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Summerland (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceA woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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Mata Hari (1931)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
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Closing the Ring (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceDuring the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a…
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Cyrano (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceA man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a…
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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceIn 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
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Allied (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceIn 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
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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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Darling (1965)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceDiana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and dramaAn early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
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Purple Hearts (2022)
★ 8/10Also romance and dramaAn aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
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Hurricane (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaPolish pilots overcome prejudice to fight against the Luftwaffe with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in the hope of protecting both Great Britain and their own Poland from the German advance.