Top 20 movies like The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best Years of Our Lives

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

The Best Years of Our Lives is of 2 hour(s) and 51 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Samuel Goldwyn Productions, RKO Radio Pictures, Samuel Goldwyn Company. It was released on 1946-12-25. It has the tagline: Three wonderful loves in the best picture of the year! It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.

Genres: DramaRomanceWar

1. Antonia's Line (Antonia)

Antonia's Line

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

It has an average vote of 7.077 on TMDB.

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2. Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

It has an average vote of 6.945 on TMDB.

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3. State Fair

State Fair

During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud patriarch Abel has high hopes for his champion swine Blueboy; and his wife Melissa enters the mincemeat and pickles contest...with hilarious results.

It has an average vote of 6.592 on TMDB.

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4. The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

The life and crimes of boy band impresario Lou Pearlman. The film tracks his life from discovering NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, to his perpetration of one of the largest ponzi schemes in US history.

It has an average vote of 6.306 on TMDB.

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5. Saraband for Dead Lovers

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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6. City on Fire

City on Fire

An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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7. No Time for Love

No Time for Love

Upper-class female reporter is attracted to hulking laborer digging a tunnel under the Hudson river.

It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.

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8. The Farmer's Daughter

The Farmer's Daughter

After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.

It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.

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9. The Dark Mirror

The Dark Mirror

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

It has an average vote of 6.882 on TMDB.

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10. Peyton Place

Peyton Place

In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.

It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.

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11. Story of a Love Affair (Cronaca di un amore)

Story of a Love Affair

Paola is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana . In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion.

It has an average vote of 6.761 on TMDB.

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12. The Three Faces of Eve

The Three Faces of Eve

A doctor treats a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder.

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

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13. Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge

On 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. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate.

It has an average vote of 7.479 on TMDB.

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14. Hyde Park on Hudson

Hyde Park on Hudson

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.

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15. The Best Years of a Life (Les plus belles années d'une vie)

The Best Years of a Life

They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…

It has an average vote of 6.582 on TMDB.

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16. Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu (Cep Herkülü: Naim Süleymanoğlu)

Pocket Hercules: Naim Suleymanoglu

From defecting to the Olympics, an underdog weightlifter powers through adversity to raise up his community in this biopic of Naim Süleymanoğlu.

It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.

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17. Going My Way

Going My Way

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

It has an average vote of 6.721 on TMDB.

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18. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene . Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

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19. The Holy Innocents (Los santos inocentes)

The Holy Innocents

Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master "needs" their work. When Regula's brother is fired from where he has worked for 61 years, he settles down at their little place... An attack against the archaism of the spanish country of the 60s.

It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.

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20. Reds

Reds

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

It has an average vote of 6.885 on TMDB.

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