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Movies Like The Zero Hour

If you liked The Zero Hour (1939), a drama and romance movie directed by Sidney Salkow, 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. 1The Deep End of the Ocean

    The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.

  2. 2The Secret: Dare to Dream

    The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

  3. 3Falling in Love

    Falling in Love (1984)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time…

  4. 4Rent

    Rent (2005)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

  5. 5Kitty Foyle

    Kitty Foyle (1940)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

  6. 6The Age of Innocence

    The Age of Innocence (1993)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

  7. 7New York, New York

    New York, New York (1977)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance and drama

    An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.

  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. 9An Autumn Romance

    An Autumn Romance (2021)

    ★ 7/10Also romance and drama

    When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who…

  10. 10The Clock

    The Clock (1945)

    ★ 7.1/10Also romance and drama

    A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

  11. 11Cradle Will Rock

    Cradle Will Rock (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.

  12. 12Wonderstruck

    Wonderstruck (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

  13. 13The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  14. 14The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

    The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.

  15. 15Racing with the Moon

    Racing with the Moon (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be…

  16. 16The House of Mirth

    The House of Mirth (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.

  17. 17In the Heights

    In the Heights (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.

  18. 18Plunder Road

    Plunder Road (1957)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.

  19. 19A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live…

  20. 20Caught

    Caught (1949)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life…

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