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 7.799 on TMDB.

Genres: DramaRomanceWar

1. 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 7.496 on TMDB.

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2. 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 6.6 on TMDB.

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3. 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 6.881 on TMDB.

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4. 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 6.585 on TMDB.

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5. Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

It has an average vote of 7.289 on TMDB.

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6. 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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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. Great Expectations

Great Expectations

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

It has an average vote of 7.268 on TMDB.

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9. 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 6.601 on TMDB.

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10. 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 6.731 on TMDB.

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11. Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement

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

It has an average vote of 6.935 on TMDB.

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12. The Last Battle (Le Dernier Combat)

The Last Battle

The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character who is menaced by "The Brute" on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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13. 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 7.136 on TMDB.

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14. 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 6.6 on TMDB.

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15. 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 6.724 on TMDB.

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16. 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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17. 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 7.318 on TMDB.

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18. 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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19. Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

It has an average vote of 7.025 on TMDB.

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20. Seven Chances

Seven Chances

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

It has an average vote of 7.546 on TMDB.

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