MOVIEPAD
Search icon

Movies Like The Wonderful Story

If you liked The Wonderful Story (1932), a romance and drama movie directed by Reginald Fogwell, 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. 1City Girl

    City Girl (1930)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

  2. 2Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven (1978)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

  3. 3Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance

    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

  4. 4In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood (1967)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

  5. 5The Sleeping Dictionary

    The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…

  6. 6Bitter Moon

    Bitter Moon (1992)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

  7. 7Clash by Night

    Clash by Night (1952)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

  8. 8Little Fish

    Little Fish (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also romance and drama

    A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.

  9. 9The 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.

  10. 10The House of the Spirits

    The House of the Spirits (1993)

    ★ 6.9/10Also romance and drama

    A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

  11. 11The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  12. 12Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  13. 13The Fugitive Kind

    The Fugitive Kind (1960)

    ★ 6.9/10Also romance and drama

    Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local…

  14. 14Gabriel's Inferno

    Gabriel's Inferno (2020)

    ★ 8.4/10Also romance and drama

    An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the…

  15. 15The 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.

  16. 16Gabriel's Inferno: Part III

    Gabriel's Inferno: Part III (2020)

    ★ 8.3/10Also romance and drama

    The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.

  17. 17Lady Macbeth

    Lady Macbeth (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Rural 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…

  18. 18Bring Them Down

    Bring Them Down (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    When the ongoing rivalry between farmers Michael and Jack suddenly escalates, it triggers a chain of events that take increasingly violent and devastating turns, leaving both families permanently altered.

  19. 19Strangers When We Meet

    Strangers When We Meet (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance and drama

    A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.

  20. 20The Bridges of Madison County

    The Bridges of Madison County (1995)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

← Back to The Wonderful Story