Movies Like Idiot's Delight

If you liked Idiot's Delight (1939), a comedy and drama movie directed by Clarence Brown, 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
A League of Their Own (1992)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters…
2
Radio Days (1987)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with…
3
Churchill (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
4
Edie (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, 83-year-old Edie decides that it is never too late. After packing an old camping bag, she leaves her life behind and embarks on an adventure she never got to…
5
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
6
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
7
Top Secret! (1984)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance…
8
Camp Rock 3 (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
When pop group Connect 3 returns to Camp Rock to search for an opening act for their reunion tour, rising tensions and fierce competition among campers test old friendships and spark unexpected romances.
9
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
★ 7.3/10Also drama
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
10
Last Holiday (2006)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and drama
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life…
11
The Truman Show (1998)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and drama
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
12
'Round Midnight (1986)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon…
13
One Life (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also drama
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be known as the…
14
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
★ 7/10Also drama
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies…
15
The Great Escape (1963)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war…
16
Last Holiday (1950)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
17
Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of…
18
Cradle Will Rock (1999)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
19
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way…
20
Waiting for Anya (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.