Movies Like Glad Tidings

If you liked Glad Tidings (1953), a movie directed by Wolf Rilla, 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
The Face of Love (2013)
★ 6.1/10
A widow falls for a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
2
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
★ 7.4/10
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass…
3
5 to 7 (2014)
★ 7.1/10
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
4
The Lucky One (2012)
★ 7.2/10
A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.
5
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
★ 7.3/10
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club…
6
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
★ 6.1/10
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.
7
The General (1926)
★ 7.9/10
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The…
8
Monster's Ball (2001)
★ 6.8/10
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
9
Casablanca (1943)
★ 8.1/10
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
10
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
★ 7.4/10
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron…
11
White Mischief (1987)
★ 6.1/10
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing…
12
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)
★ 6.7/10
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
13
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
★ 6.3/10
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
14
Persuasion (2022)
★ 6.1/10
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne…
15
The Honorary Consul (1983)
★ 5.8/10
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people…
16
Starman (1984)
★ 6.9/10
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
17
Tristan & Isolde (2006)
★ 6.7/10
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
18
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
★ 6.5/10
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious…
19
Raintree County (1957)
★ 6.4/10
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further…
20
The End of the Affair (1999)
★ 6.6/10
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is…