Movies Like The Best Years of Our Lives
If you liked The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), a drama and romance movie directed by William Wyler, 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.
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Firebird (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceAt the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air Force Base.
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A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceWorld War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
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Suite Française (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceFrance, 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…
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The Last Rifleman (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and warA WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his…
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The History of Love (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceThe 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.
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Dear John (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceWhile 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…
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Waterloo Bridge (1940)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceOn the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
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A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and warA German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
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The Lucky One (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceA 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.
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Purple Hearts (2022)
★ 8/10Also romance and dramaAn aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
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Benediction (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and warPoet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service…
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceWhen a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
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To Hell and Back (1955)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaThe true WWII story of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in U.S. history. Based on the autobiography of Audie Murphy who stars as himself in the film.
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The Great Escaper (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and warIn the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
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Private Peaceful (2012)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceSet 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.
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Summerland (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceA woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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The Big Parade (1925)
★ 7.6/10Also romance and warThe story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds…
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Aces High (1976)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and warThe first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a…
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Legends of the Fall (1994)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceIn early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by…
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Flyboys (2006)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and warThe adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.