Movies Like The Bitter Tea of General Yen

If you liked The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), a drama and romance movie directed by Frank Capra, 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
Shanghai Express (1932)
★ 7/10Also drama and romance
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
2
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…
3
Firebird (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance
At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
4
The History of Love (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
5
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
★ 6.8/10Also war and drama
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was where she belonged. Unqualified to be sent as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn to send herself to a poor, remote village. There, she…
6
Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
★ 7/10Also drama and war
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
7
China Girl (1987)
★ 6/10Also romance and drama
Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
8
Ship of Fools (1965)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance
A varied group of passengers aboard a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early-1930s society.
9
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…
10
The White Countess (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants…
11
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
★ 6/10Also war and drama
A Protestant World War II pilot and a Jewish girl fall in love in Jerusalem, even though their diverse backgrounds threaten to pull them apart.
12
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance
A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
13
The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017)
★ 6/10Also romance and drama
Lillie, a determined American woman, ventures overseas to join Dr. Jude at a remote medical mission in the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey). However, Lillie soon finds herself at odds with Jude and the mission’s founder…
14
I Still Believe (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance
The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.
15
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.
16
The Good Earth (1937)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile…
17
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and war
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with…
18
The African Queen (1952)
★ 7.3/10Also romance and war
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
19
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.
20
The Painted Veil (2006)
★ 7.3/10Also romance and drama
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.