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Movies Like Wonder of Women

If you liked Wonder of Women (1929), a drama movie directed by Clarence Brown, 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. 1Amadeus

    Amadeus (1984)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

  2. 2The File on Thelma Jordon

    The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.

  3. 3The Dark Corner

    The Dark Corner (1946)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in…

  4. 4Copying Beethoven

    Copying Beethoven (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Serving as Ludwig van Beethoven's copyist gives a conservatory student access to the composer's musical genius, but also exposes her to his cruelty.

  5. 5Detour

    Detour (1945)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

  6. 6Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

  7. 7Dreamgirls

    Dreamgirls (2006)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

  8. 8The Great Lie

    The Great Lie (1941)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

  9. 9BUtterfield 8

    BUtterfield 8 (1960)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.

  10. 10Steven Universe: The Movie

    Steven Universe: The Movie (2019)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama

    Two years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy the Earth.

  11. 11August Rush

    August Rush (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Evan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater…

  12. 12Beyond the Sea

    Beyond the Sea (2004)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.

  13. 13Madame X

    Madame X (1966)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Holly Parker, the wife of a wealthy diplomat, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who has been romantically pursuing her. She is forced by her mother-in-law to assume a new identity in order to save the…

  14. 14Pitfall

    Pitfall (1948)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator.

  15. 15Another Woman

    Another Woman (1988)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in…

  16. 16The Sound of Music Live!

    The Sound of Music Live! (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    The Sound of Music Live! is a television special that was originally broadcast by NBC on December 5, 2013. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the special was an adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway…

  17. 17Othello

    Othello (1951)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.

  18. 18Don't Bother to Knock

    Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.

  19. 19The Blue Dahlia

    The Blue Dahlia (1946)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Soon after a veteran returns from war, his cheating wife is found dead. He evades police in an attempt to find the real murderer.

  20. 20Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

    ★ 8.3/10Also drama

    A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

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