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Movies Like The Dark Angel

If you liked The Dark Angel (1935), a romance and drama movie directed by Sidney Franklin, 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.

  1. 1Doctor Zhivago

    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    The 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.

  2. 2Wings

    Wings (1927)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Two 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…

  3. 3Persuasion

    Persuasion (2007)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are forced to rent out their mansion to…

  4. 4Waterloo Bridge

    Waterloo Bridge (1940)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    On 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.

  5. 5Persuasion

    Persuasion (1995)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    In 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…

  6. 6Raintree County

    Raintree County (1957)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance and drama

    In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further…

  7. 7Random Harvest

    Random Harvest (1942)

    ★ 7.3/10Also romance and drama

    Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.

  8. 8Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson (1935)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…

  9. 9Nobody Has to Know

    Nobody Has to Know (2022)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with his deepest secret : they were in love.

  10. 10Hell's Angels

    Hell's Angels (1930)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany. As a love…

  11. 11Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre (1943)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester…

  12. 12Tim

    Tim (1979)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama

    Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become…

  13. 13The Vow

    The Vow (2012)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved…

  14. 14Mr. Skeffington

    Mr. Skeffington (1944)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

  15. 15Benediction

    Benediction (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service…

  16. 16The Best Years of Our Lives

    The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

  17. 17The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  18. 18A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun (1951)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

  19. 19The Last Station

    The Last Station (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every…

  20. 20Brooklyn

    Brooklyn (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance

    In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

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