Movies like Grand Hotel (1932)
The best movies like Grand Hotel (1932) are Anna Christie (1930), Baby Face (1933) and One Hour with You (1932). If Grand Hotel hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedIt Happened One Night (1934)7.8/10 from 1,483 votes
- NewestHis Girl Friday (1940)Released 1940
Anna Christie (1930)
Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBaby Face (1933)
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne Hour with You (1932)
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, and has been having her tailed. Andre gets caught, and must confess to his wife. But Colette has had problems resisting the attentions of another man herself, and they forgive each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrouble in Paradise (1932)
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Free Soul (1931)
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMadame Butterfly (1932)
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Possessed (1931)
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMorocco (1930)
Mogador, Morocco. Late 1920s. A complex romance develops between a womanizing Legionnaire and a disillusioned Parisian cabaret singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlonde Venus (1932)
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn American Tragedy (1931)
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Shanghai Express (1932)
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLadies of Leisure (1930)
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Dishonored (1931)
The Austrian Secret Service sends its most seductive agent to spy on the Russians.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDinner at Eight (1933)
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Divorcee (1930)
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Blue Angel (1930)
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRed Dust (1932)
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Painted Veil (1934)
The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Love Me Tonight (1932)
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSadie McKee (1934)
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Forbidden (1932)
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Happened One Night (1934)
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHoliday (1930)
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Shanghai, China, the 1920s. In the midst of a bloody civil war, General Yen, a ruthless warlord, rescues Megan Davis —who was about to marry a missionary— from certain death amid the chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHis Girl Friday (1940)
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHistory Is Made at Night (1937)
An American woman seeking divorce from her wealthy, controlling husband falls for a romantic Parisian who saves her from his entrapment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Women (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Good Earth (1937)
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPygmalion (1938)
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Grand Hotel?
The closest matches to Grand Hotel are Anna Christie (1930), Baby Face (1933) and One Hour with You (1932). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Grand Hotel?
People who watched Grand Hotel most often go on to Anna Christie (1930), Baby Face (1933) and One Hour with You (1932).
What is the highest-rated movie like Grand Hotel?
It Happened One Night (1934), rated 7.8/10 by 1,483 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Grand Hotel?
His Girl Friday (1940) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Grand Hotel?
Yes: Anna Christie (1930), Baby Face (1933) and One Hour with You (1932).
How are movies similar to Grand Hotel chosen?
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