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Movies Like The Big Street

If you liked The Big Street (1942), a romance and drama movie directed by Irving Reis, 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. 1Up Close & Personal

    Up Close & Personal (1996)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He…

  2. 2Bitter Moon

    Bitter Moon (1992)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

  3. 3Purple Hearts

    Purple Hearts (2022)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    An 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.

  4. 4Newness

    Newness (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

  5. 5Moonlight

    Moonlight (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his…

  6. 6Kitty Foyle

    Kitty Foyle (1940)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

  7. 7Winter Spring Summer or Fall

    Winter Spring Summer or Fall (2024)

    ★ 7.3/10Also romance and drama

    Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their lives forever.

  8. 8Five Dances

    Five Dances (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A gifted young dancer arrives in New York City and joins the downtown contemporary dance world. With talent to burn, he soon must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a…

  9. 9Bully

    Bully (2001)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.

  10. 10Materialists

    Materialists (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama

    A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

  11. 11Midnight Sun

    Midnight Sun (2018)

    ★ 7.8/10Also romance and drama

    Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and…

  12. 12Five Feet Apart

    Five Feet Apart (2019)

    ★ 8.2/10Also romance and drama

    Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an…

  13. 13An Affair to Remember

    An Affair to Remember (1957)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?

  14. 14A Woman Under the Influence

    A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile…

  15. 15Killer's Kiss

    Killer's Kiss (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The…

  16. 16New York, New York

    New York, New York (1977)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance and drama

    An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.

  17. 17Love Everlasting

    Love Everlasting (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and drama

    Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.

  18. 18Gabriel's Inferno

    Gabriel's Inferno (2020)

    ★ 8.4/10Also romance and drama

    An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the…

  19. 19Jungle Fever

    Jungle Fever (1991)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

  20. 20The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

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