Movies like City Girl (1930)
The best movies like City Girl (1930) are Lucky Star (1929), Bad Girl (1931) and Susan Lenox (1931). If City Girl 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 ratedThe Blue Angel (1930)7.3/10 from 388 votes
- NewestImitation of Life (1934)Released 1934
Lucky Star (1929)
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBad Girl (1931)
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSusan Lenox (1931)
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
One Way Passage (1932)
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBorn to Be Bad (1934)
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage of. Letty teaches her child to lie, steal, cheat and anything else he'll need to be street smart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Morocco (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 thisThe Man Who Played God (1932)
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
The Wild Party (1929)
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Twentieth Century (1934)
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Madness (1932)
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemale (1933)
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Other Men's Women (1931)
The friendship of two working stiff railroad engineers is put to the test when one falls for the other’s wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Baby 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 thisImitation of Life (1934)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHot Saturday (1932)
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
City Streets (1931)
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToday We Live (1933)
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Ladies 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
Design for Living (1933)
Independent Gilda is resigned fo a life of married tedium when Tom and George, having gotten past their jealousy, come to America and whisk Gilda away to live an exciting polyamorous life in Paris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 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 thisStreet Scene (1931)
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisMan's Castle (1933)
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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 thisThe Big House (1930)
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOf Human Bondage (1934)
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisState Fair (1933)
The children of Iowa farmers find love, with mixed results, at the state fair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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 thisTabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like City Girl?
The closest matches to City Girl are Lucky Star (1929), Bad Girl (1931) and Susan Lenox (1931). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after City Girl?
People who watched City Girl most often go on to Lucky Star (1929), Bad Girl (1931) and Susan Lenox (1931).
What is the highest-rated movie like City Girl?
The Blue Angel (1930), rated 7.3/10 by 388 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like City Girl?
Imitation of Life (1934) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like City Girl?
Yes: Lucky Star (1929), Bad Girl (1931) and Susan Lenox (1931).
How are movies similar to City Girl chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside City Girl, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.