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Movies Like Now and Forever

If you liked Now and Forever (1934), a drama movie directed by Henry Hathaway, 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. 1Mildred Pierce

    Mildred Pierce (1945)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.

  2. 2A Perfect Murder

    A Perfect Murder (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…

  3. 3Blue Jasmine

    Blue Jasmine (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted…

  4. 4Unforgettable

    Unforgettable (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Barely coping with the end of her marriage, Tessa Connover learns that her ex-husband, David, is now happily engaged to Julia. Trying to settle into her new life after moving in with David, Julia believes she has…

  5. 5Fatale

    Fatale (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    After a wild one-night stand, successful sports agent Derrick Tyler watches his perfect life slowly disappear when he discovers the sexy and mysterious woman he risked everything for is determined police detective…

  6. 6The Killing

    The Killing (1956)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George…

  7. 7Catch Me If You Can

    Catch Me If You Can (2002)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him…

  8. 8A Thousand and One

    A Thousand and One (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so…

  9. 9Addicted

    Addicted (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

  10. 10I Am Sam

    I Am Sam (2001)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become…

  11. 11The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect…

  12. 12Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    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.

  13. 13Butterfly on a Wheel

    Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

  14. 14I'll Be Home for Christmas

    I'll Be Home for Christmas (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Jackie Foster, a dynamic Assistant District Attorney and single mom, is looking forward to wrapping up her latest case and spending Christmas with Gracie, her adorable and precocious, eight-year old daughter. But when…

  15. 15Creed III

    Creed III (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is…

  16. 16Pacific Heights

    Pacific Heights (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

  17. 17Dead Man Down

    Dead Man Down (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.

  18. 18Collision

    Collision (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Over the course of one fateful day, a corrupt businessman and his socialite wife race to save their daughter from a notorious crime lord.

  19. 19A Most Violent Year

    A Most Violent Year (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and…

  20. 2099 Homes

    99 Homes (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    After his family is evicted from their home, proud and desperate construction worker Dennis Nash tries to win his home back by striking a deal with the devil and working for Rick Carver, the corrupt real estate broker…

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