Movies Like If Winter Comes
If you liked If Winter Comes (1947), a drama movie directed by Victor Saville, 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 Bookshop (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaSet in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.
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Goodnight, Mister Tom (1998)
★ 7/10Also dramaA shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
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Hope and Glory (1987)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…
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The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaWhen the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for…
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Darkest Hour (2017)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaIn May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.
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The Road Dance (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
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The Old Oak (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
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Jasper Jones (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaFourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laura's younger sister.
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The Railway Children Return (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFollow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
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The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10Also dramaA jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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Sand Castle (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaSet during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
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Lady Macbeth (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaRural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get…
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When the Wind Blows (1986)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaWith the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of…
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Night Train to Munich (1940)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaCzechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi…
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The Dig (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAs WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
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Red Dawn (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaIt is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
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This Happy Breed (1944)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaEngland, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to…
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Into the Storm (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaThis powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.