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Movies Like A Farewell to Arms

If you liked A Farewell to Arms (1957), a drama and romance movie directed by Charles Vidor, 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. 1Doctor Zhivago

    Doctor Zhivago (1965)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

  2. 2Suite Française

    Suite Française (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian…

  3. 3Dear John

    Dear John (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah…

  4. 4Private Peaceful

    Private Peaceful (2012)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.

  5. 5The History of Love

    The History of Love (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

  6. 6Their Finest

    Their Finest (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and war

    During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters who undertook…

  7. 7The Zone of Interest

    The Zone of Interest (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and war

    The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

  8. 8Wings

    Wings (1927)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and war

    Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the…

  9. 9Hell's Angels

    Hell's Angels (1930)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and war

    As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany. As a love…

  10. 10The Painted Veil

    The Painted Veil (2006)

    ★ 7.3/10Also romance and drama

    A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

  11. 11Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina (1997)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high…

  12. 12All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)

    ★ 6.7/10Also war and drama

    At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors…

  13. 13The Big Red One

    The Big Red One (1980)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and war

    A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at…

  14. 14Journey's End

    Journey's End (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also war and drama

    Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

  15. 15The Great Escape

    The Great Escape (1963)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama and war

    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. 16The Lucky One

    The Lucky One (2012)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    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.

  17. 17Quo Vadis

    Quo Vadis (1951)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

  18. 18A Hidden Life

    A Hidden Life (2019)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and war

    Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.

  19. 19Rebel in the Rye

    Rebel in the Rye (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.

  20. 20Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver (1942)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady…

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