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Movies Like Private Peaceful

If you liked Private Peaceful (2012), a drama and romance movie directed by Pat O'Connor, 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. 2Their Finest

    Their Finest (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and war

    During 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…

  3. 3Dear John

    Dear John (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah…

  4. 4Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver (1942)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady…

  5. 5Suite Française

    Suite Française (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian…

  6. 6Wings

    Wings (1927)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and war

    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…

  7. 7Hell's Angels

    Hell's Angels (1930)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and war

    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…

  8. 8A Farewell to Arms

    A Farewell to Arms (1957)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    An 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.

  9. 9The Best of Me

    The Best of Me (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

  10. 10The Sleeping Dictionary

    The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    In 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…

  11. 11Legends of the Fall

    Legends of the Fall (1994)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by…

  12. 12Random 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.

  13. 13Summerland

    Summerland (2020)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

  14. 14Flyboys

    Flyboys (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and war

    The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

  15. 15Reds

    Reds (1981)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of…

  16. 16War Horse

    War Horse (2011)

    ★ 7.3/10Also war and drama

    On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms…

  17. 17Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  18. 18Battleground

    Battleground (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and war

    Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their…

  19. 19Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

    Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?

  20. 20Endless Love

    Endless Love (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

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