Movies like Freud: The Secret Passion (1962)
The best movies like Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) are Young Tom Edison (1940), Isadora (1968) and The Long, Hot Summer (1958). If Freud: The Secret Passion hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedLust for Life (1956)7.2/10 from 213 votes
- NewestThe Iceman Cometh (1973)Released 1973
Young Tom Edison (1940)
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
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Isadora (1968)
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
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The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Entertainer (1960)
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOf Mice and Men (1939)
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisTea and Sympathy (1956)
A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Strange One (1957)
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
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The Browning Version (1951)
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisMandy (1952)
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
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Wild River (1960)
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisLust for Life (1956)
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Magic Box (1952)
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisMoulin Rouge (1952)
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Winslow Boy (1948)
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
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A Patch of Blue (1965)
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Exiles (1961)
The story of one night in the lives of a group of young Native American men and women who have left their reservations and are now living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Well (1951)
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But is he guilty?
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Look Back in Anger (1959)
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Young One (1960)
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisSons and Lovers (1960)
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Iceman Cometh (1973)
Set in 1912, inside a dive bar named The Last Chance Saloon, its destitute patrons eagerly await the arrival of Hickey, who arrives annually and props everyone up with free drinks and spirited stories of his travels. However, when Hickey does show up this year, it is with a message of temperance and an exhortation to give up hopeless dreams and face reality.
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Death of a Salesman (1951)
Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
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The Goddess (1958)
A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
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Wild in the Country (1961)
A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
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Lilith (1964)
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecret Ceremony (1968)
A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToo Late Blues (1961)
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Freud: The Secret Passion?
The closest matches to Freud: The Secret Passion are Young Tom Edison (1940), Isadora (1968) and The Long, Hot Summer (1958). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Freud: The Secret Passion?
People who watched Freud: The Secret Passion most often go on to Young Tom Edison (1940), Isadora (1968) and The Long, Hot Summer (1958).
What is the highest-rated movie like Freud: The Secret Passion?
Lust for Life (1956), rated 7.2/10 by 213 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Freud: The Secret Passion?
The Iceman Cometh (1973) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Freud: The Secret Passion?
Yes: Young Tom Edison (1940), Isadora (1968) and The Long, Hot Summer (1958).
How are movies similar to Freud: The Secret Passion chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Freud: The Secret Passion, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.