20 movies like The Stars Look Down, ordered by similarity : The Good Earth(1937), Kitty Foyle(1940), Spitfire(1934), John and the Missus(1987), They Were Sisters(1945), In Our Time(1944), Cheers for Miss Bishop(1941), My Son, My Son(1940), Riffraff(1935), Happiness and Tears(2001), A Room With a View(1986), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937) ...
Drama
UK
1939
110 Minutes
Michael Redgrave Margaret Lockwood Emlyn Williams Nancy Price Allan Jeayes Edward Rigby Cecil Parker Linden Travers Milton Rosmer George Carney Ivor Barnard
teacher wife businessperson wealthy man bleak emotional melodramatic england small town blue collar coal mining love triangle aspirations class distinctions sacrifice underdog rivalry 1930s
Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
138 Minutes
Paul Muni Luise Rainer Walter Connolly Tilly Losch Charley Grapewin Jessie Ralph Soo Yong Keye Luke Roland Lui Ching Wah Lee Harold Huber
farmer wife pretty woman son emotional melodramatic china farm farming family poverty aspirations marriage love triangle transformation love sacrifice 1930s
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Drama
USA
1940
108 Minutes
Ginger Rogers Dennis Morgan James Craig Edward Ciannelli Ernest Cossart Gladys Cooper
salesgirl doctor wealthy man father wife son melodramatic emotional philadelphia new york city department store family home office marriage divorce love triangle class distinctions love transformation 1930s
A hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
88 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Robert Young Ralph Bellamy Martha Sleeper Sara Haden Sidney Toler
poor woman neighbor engineer partner father wife emotional bleak moving passionate ozark mountains farm river house wilderness town poverty city vs. country modernization dams
Mountain girl Trigger Hicks, a fierce loner equally handy with a rock or a prayer, is in danger of having her faith-healing mistaken for witchcraft by the neighbors. She shows a vulnerable ... See full summary »
Drama
Canada
1987
100 Minutes
Gordon Pinsent Jackie Burroughs Randy Follett Jessica Steen Timothy Webber Roland Hewgill Neil Munro
miner husband wife son townsperson government official bleak emotional powerful newfoundland small town household canada small-town life mining displacement family government marriage quest
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1945
110 Minutes
sibling abused wife abusive husband husband wife sith lord disturbing melodramatic emotional small town house hotel unhappy marriage relationships love infidelity father/daughter relationship adultery fall discovery
The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1944
110 Minutes
Ida Lupino Paul Henreid Nancy Coleman Mary Boland Victor Francen Alla Nazimova Michael Chekhov Marek Windheim Ivan Triesault John Bleifer
aristocrat count american wife antique dealer rousing emotional warsaw, poland estate wedding world war ii class distinctions love nazis invasion royalty love sacrifice rivalry 1930s
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1941
95 Minutes
Martha Scott William Gargan Edmund Gwenn Sterling Holloway Sidney Blackmer Mary Anderson Dorothy Peterson
teacher suitor friend student emotional melodramatic small town college nebraska teaching romance friendship aspirations transformation love discovery sacrifice 1930s
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Drama
USA
1940
115 Minutes
wealthy man artist son father widower fiancée melodramatic cheeky touching slum manchester, england household city rags to riches father/son relationship deception love triangle world war i family dysfunction sacrifice
A self-made success is determined to give his son the lavish upbringing he himself was denied. Not surprisingly, the son grows up to be spoiled rotten, causing grief and pain to everyone who loves him.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
89 Minutes
Jean Harlow Spencer Tracy Una Merkel Joseph Calleia Mickey Rooney Victor Kilian J. Farrell MacDonald Roger Imhof Juanita Quigley Paul Hurst Vince Barnett
fisherman factory worker night watchman union boss sister wife melodramatic fiery bleak coast factory california prison small town house worker's rights marriage thievery pregnancy poverty
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. He quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
2001
209 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Kajol Hrithik Roshan Kareena Kapoor Rani Mukherji Simone Singh Himani Shivpuri Shah Rukh Khan
adopted son patriarch mother son wife sister-in-law melodramatic emotional fiery spectacular bombay, india london mansion village parental pressure family honor father/son relationship class distinctions arranged marriage indian life
Drama
UK
1986
115 Minutes
Helena Bonham Carter Maggie Smith Julian Sands Denholm Elliott Daniel Day-Lewis Simon Callow Judi Dench Rosemary Leach Rupert Graves Patrick Godfrey Fabia Drake
pretty woman suitor tourist wealthy man cousin emotional passionate italy england florence small town hotel love love triangle romance travel high society love discovery 1900s
Lucy meets George in a Florence pensione and the two share a brief romance before Lucy returns home, where she becomes engaged to Cecil. However, it isn't long before George unexpectedly enters her life again.
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Victor Moore Beulah Bondi Fay Bainter Thomas Mitchell Porter Hall Barbara Read Maurice Moscovich Elisabeth Risdon Minna Gombell Ray Mayer
husband wife son daughter daughter-in-law young boy bleak emotional somber family home aging poverty family marriage grief love sacrifice 1930s
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Romance, War, Drama
1943
163 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Roger Livesey Deborah Kerr Anton Walbrook John Laurie James McKechnie Neville Mapp
soldier major general teacher nurse nazi gripping melodramatic witty england pow camp south africa germany love friendship war aging military love transformation sacrifice
A Boer War subaltern (Roger Livesey) becomes a World War II colonel, with three lovers (Deborah Kerr) along the way.
Drama
USA
1937
68 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Anne Nagel Frank Shields Edward Pawley William Gould Dorothy Vaughan Harry Hayden Bradley Metcalfe Anita Deniston
son schoolteacher veteran dairy owner bully father moving melodramatic indiana ainsley small town school dairy adolescence veterans alcoholism strike accidental death second chance underdog
A schoolteacher comes to a new town and finds herself caught up in the town's problems and disputes.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
99 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Fred MacMurray Fred Stone Evelyn Venable Frank Albertson Ann Shoemaker Charley Grapewin Grady Sutton Hedda Hopper Jonathan Hale Hattie McDaniel
daughter mother father wealthy man amusing emotional spirited small town household midwest aspirations social standing class distinctions romance dining love quest 1930s
A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
Drama
USA
1918
84 Minutes
Mary Pickford Conway Tearle Ida Waterman Herbert Standing Marcia Manon Josephine Crowell
disabled person journalist orphan aunt wife maid melodramatic dark shocking emotional london mansion house jail england city isolation jealousy abuse disillusionment
Two young women - a paraplegic girl sheltered by her wealthy guardians and a more experienced orphan - fall in love with a man separated from his violent wife.
Drama
USA
1937
111 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck John Boles Dawn O'Day Barbara O'Neil Alan Hale Marjorie Main Edmund Elton George Walcott Gertrude Short Tim Holt Nella Walker
mother wife daughter husband father wealthy man melodramatic uneasy engaging camp massachusetts small town mill family home mother/daughter relationship divorce class distinctions marriage family relationships
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Drama
USA
1942
88 Minutes
Joseph Cotten Tim Holt Dolores Costello Anne Baxter Agnes Moorehead Richard Bennett Erskine Sanford J. Louis Johnson Don Dillaway Charles R. Phipps Dorothy Vaughan
wife mother son father carmaker aunt fascinating dense intense indiana mansion europe small town indianapolis family wealth aging love jealousy unrequited love
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Drama
UK|USA
2019
122 Minutes
Hugh Bonneville Jim Carter Michelle Dockery Elizabeth McGovern Maggie Smith Imelda Staunton Penelope Wilton Laura Carmichael Joanne Froggatt Brendan Coyle Kevin Doyle
king george v queen servant chef attendant wealthy man charming cheery emotional endearing dreamy melodramatic estate great britain english countryside family estate love wealth secrets schemes
The continuing story of the Crawley family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early twentieth century.
Romance, Other, Drama
UK
2017
84 Minutes
Jessy Schram Sam Page Crystal Balint Cheryl Ladd Hayley Sales Andrew Kavadas Nicole LaPlaca Gerard Plunkett
fashion designer prince young woman love interest lady young man amusing charming playful lighthearted heartwarming emotional ballroom relationships love tradition love triangle royal life family honor discovery
Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly ... See full summary »