20 movies like Penny Serenade, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Okaasan(1952), Having You(2013), I Saw the Light(2015), Roma(2018), Cloud 9(2008), Caterpillar(2010), Sparrows Can't Sing(1963), Woodpeckers(2017), The Good Girls(1960), Fool for Love(1985), Pennies From Heaven(1936) ...
7.1/10
Drama
USA
1941
118 Minutes
Irene Dunne Cary Grant Beulah Bondi Edgar Buchanan Ann Doran Eva Lee Kuney Leonard Willey Wallis Clark Walter Soderling Baby Biffle Edmund Elton
newspaper owner wife child social worker assistant gripping melodramatic sad new york city family home japan parenthood adoption tragic death unhappy marriage quest love 1940s
A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
7.2/10
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
7.6/10
Drama
Japan
1952
100 Minutes
Kinuyo Tanaka Masao Mishima Akihiko Katayama Kyoko Kagawa Eiji Okada
mother husband daughter sister son japanese man melodramatic tender moving japan family home street factory mother/daughter relationship family postwar japan poverty marriage hard times sacrifice
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
6.4/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
2013
97 Minutes
Anna Friel Romola Garai Andrew Buchan Philip Davis Isaac Andrews Steven Cree Harry Hadden-Paton Hattie Morahan
love child fiancé fiancée former lover son father emotional engaging gripping heartwarming intense tender united kingdom coast town home hospital family relationships father/son relationship
Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
5.8/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2015
123 Minutes
Tom Hiddleston Elizabeth Olsen Bradley Whitford David Krumholtz Cherry Jones Maddie Hasson Wes Langlois Wrenn Schmidt
singer country singer singer-songwriter womanizer american musician guitarist love interest wife child boy george girl hank williams jr. disheartening emotional engaging gripping sad united states alabama
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
7.7/10
Drama
Mexico|USA
2018
135 Minutes
Yalitza Aparicio Marina de Tavira Marco Graf Fernando Grediaga Daniela Demesa Carlos Peralta Nancy García Jorge Antonio Guerrero Enoc Leaño Diego Cortina Autrey
maid nanny wife husband child lover emotional moving sad tense endearing mexico city house beach shop theater apartment pregnancy family relationships
A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
6.6/10
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
War, Drama, History
2010
85 Minutes
Shinobu Terajima Keigo Kasuya Emi Masuda Sabu Kawahara Shima Ônishi
soldier husband wife villager war hero disabled person disheartening melodramatic sad japan village household second sino-japanese war military disfigurement marriage heroism disability quest transformation
In 1940s Japan a villager must fulfill her duty to her husband, a decorated soldier who returned from war a quadruple amputee.
6.2/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1963
94 Minutes
James Booth Barbara Windsor Roy Kinnear Avis Bunnage Brian Murphy George Sewell Barbara Ferris Griffith Davies Murray Melvin Arthur Mullard Peggy Ann Clifford
seaman wife bus driver baby emotional melodramatic intense touching sad sea boat home returning home new love fatherhood doubt past loves adventure love forbidden love
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a ... See full summary »
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
5.4/10
Drama
France|Italy
1960
105 Minutes
Bernadette Lafont Lucile Saint-Simon Clotilde Joano Stéphane Audran Mario David Jean-Louis Maury Sacha Briquet Dinan
single woman woman saleswoman man love interest lover amusing cheeky engaging dreamy heartwarming lighthearted paris france relationships love work destiny saleswomen love interest
A feud between families in 1870's rural France.
6.1/10
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
6.6/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1936
80 Minutes
Bing Crosby Edith Fellows Louis Armstrong Madge Evans Donald Meek John Gallaudet Tom Dugan Nana Bryant Charles Wilson Harry Tyler William Stack
ex-convict grandfather child social worker singer uplifting emotional amusing new jersey family home orphanage new york city adoption circus redemption family performance money rescue quest
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1959
99 Minutes
Max Bygraves Barbara Murray Colin Petersen
social worker orphan electrician poor boy poor girl love interest heartwarming charming melodramatic engaging london orphanage orphans unlikely romance childcare love poverty work discovery love
A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler. (1959; B&W)
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1940
70 Minutes
Bob Cummings Laraine Day Jean Muir Billie Burke Ann Morriss Esther Dale Charles Waldron Frank Milan Rand Brooks Paul Stanton Ruth Tobey
young woman sister love interest husband inmate bachelor emotional sad engaging party car family home prison road car accident sister relationship death imprisonment love triangle responsibility
A woman lets a family friend take the blame after she accidentally runs over a man with a car.
6.3/10
Drama, Romance
India
2007
129 Minutes
Shiney Ahuja Anil Chaudhary Soha Ali Khan Rajat Kapoor Sushmita Mukherjee Sonya Jehan Vinay Pathak
author wife second wife actress director bleak brooding sad disheartening emotional moving india city mumbai movie set house bungalow stardom depression yearning for love
Circa 1960s Lucknow-based author Zafar Ali Naqvi, who has issues with his father and his four wives, including the 4th one who lusts after him, re-locates to Bombay, starts writing for ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Crime, Drama, Action
India
1983
180 Minutes
Pran Rishi Kapoor Tina Munim Amjad Khan Sarika Vijay Arora Aruna Irani Jagdeep Madan Puri
young man young woman dancer wealthy man emotional inspiring melodramatic gripping india city house bungalow hospital love marriage death love quest pursuit transformation
Amrit's generosity and kindness initially lands him in the bad books of a dancer; then in prison; and then as false son-in-law of a very wealthy man.
Drama
1951
124 Minutes
Setsuko Hara Chishu Ryu Kuniko Miyake Chikage Awashima Chieko Higashiyama Kuniko Igawa Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
career woman daughter brother mother father businessman emotional moving tokyo family home office city japan marriage tradition independence family working woman love triangle love
5.9/10
Comedy, Drama
France
1985
106 Minutes
nurse pilot physical therapist lover child husband charming melodramatic lighthearted paris airport family home double life marriage deception love triangle relationships family love temptation
Alice seems to lead a quiet life: the first three days of the week, she works in Paris and and meets with friend Philip, and his little boy, Simon. The other two days, she works in a thalassotherapy center.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1958
108 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman Burl Ives Jack Carson Judith Anderson Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood Larry Gates Vaughn Taylor Patty Ann Gerrity Robert "Rusty" Stevens Brian Corcoran
alcoholic wife father brother mother sister-in-law sultry melodramatic mississippi family home marriage family love money rivalry quest 1950s
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
7.2/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2012
97 Minutes
Greg Kinnear Jennifer Connelly Lily Collins Logan Lerman Nat Wolff Patrick Schwarzenegger Liana Liberato Kristen Bell Michael Goodwin
author child parent father daughter son neighbor love interest romantic interest ex-wife engaging lighthearted inspiring playful mushy positive united states house beach bar
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
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