20 movies like The Best Years of Our Lives, ordered by similarity : Having You(2013), Carol(2015), Fatima(2015), A Thousand Times Goodnight(2013), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Cloud 9(2008), Since You Went Away(1944), The Human Comedy(1943), The End of the Affair(1955), Where Hands Touch(2018), My Boy Jack(2007), A City of Sadness(1989) ...
Drama
USA
1946
172 Minutes
Fredric March Myrna Loy Dana Andrews Teresa Wright Virginia Mayo Harold Russell Hoagy Carmichael Gladys George Steve Cochran
veteran wife amputee banker fiancée daughter powerful somber fascinating profound small town midwest family home war disillusionment world war ii love sacrifice discovery transformation
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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.
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.
Drama
2015
79 Minutes
Soria Zeroual Zita Hanrot Kenza Noah Aïche Franck Andrieux Chawki Amari Yolanda Mpele Edith Saulnier Dalila Bencherif
daughter mother family teenager single mother cleaning lady brooding emotional endearing heartwarming intense home town relationships love family money emotion mother/daughter relationship discovery
After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes her two daughters letters in Arabic to express things she has never been able to express in French.
War, Drama
2013
117 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Lauryn Canny Adrianna Cramer Curtis Maria Doyle Kennedy Larry Mullen Jr. Mads Ousdal Chloe Annett
family photojournalist young woman mother daughter husband emotional engaging fiery gripping intense powerful war zone home kabul, afghanistan africa refugee camp ireland career family
A war-zone photojournalist's (Juliette Binoche) dedication to her dangerous job places her at odds with her family (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny).
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
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.
Drama
USA
1944
172 Minutes
Claudette Colbert Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Monty Woolley Shirley Temple Lionel Barrymore Robert Walker Hattie McDaniel
housewife daughter young woman lodger soldier maid melodramatic heartwarming house small town united states war loss young love home front love growing up sacrifice 1940s
With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife struggles to care for their two daughters - and a pair of lodgers who have moved in - alone.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
118 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Frank Morgan James Craig Jackie "Butch" Jenkins Marsha Hunt Fay Bainter Darryl Hickman Donna Reed Van Johnson
young boy young girl boss man woman brother heartwarming emotional amusing small town house high school track office europe world war ii home front young love family communication
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Drama
UK|USA
1955
106 Minutes
Deborah Kerr Van Johnson John Mills Peter Cushing Michael Goodliffe Stephen Murray Charles Goldner Nora Swinburne
writer wife priest detective lover husband melodramatic suspenseful family home inn apartment london adultery god love triangle world war ii disillusionment bombing forbidden love sacrifice
In WW2 London, a writer falls in-love with the wife of a British civil servant but both men suspect her of infidelity with yet another man.
Romance, Drama, History
UK
2018
122 Minutes
Amandla Stenberg George MacKay Abbie Cornish Christopher Eccleston Tom Sweet Will Attenborough Alec Newman Tom Goodman-Hill Tim Faraday
young girl hitler youth teenager young boy love interest officer emotional gripping intense sad somber touching germany labor camp war zone home berlin following your heart war consequences
A rites of passage story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.
Drama
2007
93 Minutes
David Haig Daniel Radcliffe Kim Cattrall Carey Mulligan Julian Wadham Martin McCann Richard Dormer
soldier family officer young man englishman moving tense trenches war zone france england war world war i trench warfare family sacrifice sacrifice rise 1910s
Author Rudyard Kipling (David Haig) and his wife (Kim Cattrall) search for their son (Daniel Radcliffe) after he goes missing in action during World War I.
Drama
Hong Kong|Taiwan
1989
158 Minutes
Tony Leung Hsin Shu-fen Chen Sown-yung
photographer soldier gangster rebel powerful disturbing sad gripping taiwan small town mountain rebellion political coup crime war family transformation sacrifice love 1940s
A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.
Drama
Poland
2007
121 Minutes
Joachim Paul Assböck Waldemar Barwinski Stanislawa Celinska Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Maja Ostaszewska
lieutenant wife daughter soldier prisoner of war russian soldier bleak disheartening powerful emotional poland pow camp forest graveyard battlefield world war ii cover-up massacre marriage nazis
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
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, Romance
USA
2017
84 Minutes
Heather McComb Paul Greene Lexi Giovagnoli Kiersten Warren Elayna Grace Preston Grant Lunden De'Leon Jason Serrano Jim Gooden Starla Christian Julie Norman
single mother daughter love interest family former lover emotional endearing heartwarming moving touching south carolina countryside small town inheritance family relationships bonding love reflection adventure
Diane is a struggling single mom in LA. Just when things are at their worst, but she will have to live in small town USA for a year and take care of a dog for a year before the house is hers.
Drama, History, Biography
USA
2017
108 Minutes
Luke Evans Rebecca Hall Bella Heathcote Connie Britton Monica Giordano JJ Feild Chris Conroy Oliver Platt Maggie Castle Alexa Havins Sharon Kubo
professor writer inventor lover wife emotional sultry powerful passionate intricate inspiring harvard university massachusetts house stage classroom womanhood comic books threesome marriage
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Drama
UK
1987
96 Minutes
Colin Firth Kenneth Branagh Natasha Richardson Jim Carter Patrick Malahide Richard Vernon Tony Haygarth
veteran soldier archaeologist stationmaster vicar wife airy charming dreamy engaging heartwarming england yorkshire countryside village church post-war life faith forbidden love self-discovery
Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr.... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Biography, Drama
Australia|USA
2018
115 Minutes
Lucas Hedges Nicole Kidman Joel Edgerton Russell Crowe Flea Joe Alwyn Xavier Dolan Troye Sivan Britton Sear Jesse LaTourette David Ditmore
gay man young man father mother therapist preacher emotional powerful somber uplifting house high school church office homosexuality homophobia family love religion self-discovery
The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
Drama, War
West Germany
1959
93 Minutes
Joachim Hansen Wilhelm Borchert Wolfgang Preiss Carl Lange Horst Frank Peter Carsten Richard Münch Günter Pfitzmann Sonja Ziemann Gunnar Möller
german officer nationalist german soldier enemy soldier engaging suspenseful fascinating gripping melodramatic heartwarming germany stalingrad stalingrad, russia war zone war world war ii ideologies nationalism national identity
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Drama, History
UK|India|Sweden
2017
105 Minutes
Hugh Bonneville Gillian Anderson Manish Dayal Huma Qureshi Om Puri Denzil Smith Neeraj Kabi Michael Gambon Simon Callow Lily Travers Jaz Deol
lord viceroy wife daughter servant staff member moving emotional profound patriotic rousing inspiring india palace town street indian culture indian history indian independence movement british culture
The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.