Movies Like Their First Misunderstanding

If you liked Their First Misunderstanding (1911), a movie directed by George Loane Tucker and Thomas H. Ince, 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 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…
2
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
★ 7.7/10
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
3
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.
4
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
★ 6.5/10
An American couple drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
5
The Thing with Feathers (2025)
★ 6.5/10
Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
6
Effie Gray (2014)
★ 6/10
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
7
Butterfly Kisses (2018)
★ 5.9/10
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his…
8
For Sama (2019)
★ 8.2/10
A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all…
9
Christmas In Evergreen: Tidings of Joy (2019)
★ 6.8/10
A skeptical writer shows up in Evergreen to get the scoop on the town's famed passion for Christmas during a search for a long-lost time capsule.
10
Revolutionary Road (2008)
★ 7/10
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
11
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
★ 5.9/10
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.
12
Women in Love (1969)
★ 6.6/10
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results…
13
God Bless the Broken Road (2018)
★ 7.2/10
The story of a young mother who loses her husband in Afghanistan and struggles to raise their young daughter in his absence.
14
Mr. Holmes (2015)
★ 6.5/10
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved case that led to his retirement.
15
The Lost King (2022)
★ 6.5/10
An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
16
Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)
★ 6.6/10
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
17
The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
★ 6.3/10
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family…
18
Wasp (2003)
★ 7.2/10
Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go…
19
Deep Water (2022)
★ 5.8/10
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
20
Shirley (2020)
★ 6.1/10
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.