Movies like Easy Virtue (1928)
The best movies like Easy Virtue (1928) are 7th Heaven (1927), The Pleasure Garden (1925) and A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923). If Easy Virtue hooked you with its romance and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Circus (1928)7.9/10 from 926 votes
- NewestGertrud (1964)Released 1964
7th Heaven (1927)
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Pleasure Garden (1925)
Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Command (1928)
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPandora's Box (1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Kiss (1929)
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWay Down East (1920)
A naïve country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Kiss (1896)
They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBroken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Merry Widow (1925)
Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. However, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids the marriage due to her being a commoner. Thinking she's been jilted by her prince, Sally marries lecherous old Baron Sadoja, whose wealth has kept the kingdom afloat. When he suddenly dies, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Saga of Gösta Berling (1924)
Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Ring (1927)
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Circus (1928)
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGertrud (1964)
Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Crowd (1928)
John, an ambitious but undisciplined New York City office worker, meets and marries Mary. They start a family, struggle to cope with marital stress, financial setbacks, and tragedy, all while lost amid the anonymous, pitiless throngs of the big city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFlesh and the Devil (1926)
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOrphans of the Storm (1921)
France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Woman of Affairs (1928)
Childhood friends Diana, Neville and David are caught in a love triangle as adults. Diana and Neville have long been smitten with each other, but her father disapproves of the relationship, resulting in her eventual marriage to David. It's not long after their wedding, however, that tragedy strikes, sending Diana on a downward spiral. When Neville reappears in her life, will he be able to save her from her own misery?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Lady of the Night (1925)
The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity but worlds apart in society: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who sent Molly's father to prison. The girls' lives come together as they reach the age of eighteen, when Florence leaves the security of the exclusive Girls Select School, and Molly, now orphaned, begins her life after reform school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Love (1927)
In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Last Laugh (1924)
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Manxman (1929)
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wind (1928)
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors leave Letty increasingly disturbed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLa Roue (1923)
Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEcstasy (1933)
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn't have much room for passion. She becomes despondent and leaves him, returning to her father's house. One day while bathing in the lake, she meets a young man and they fall in love. The husband has become grief stricken at the loss of his young bride, and fate brings him together with the young lover that has taken Eva from him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHe Who Gets Slapped (1924)
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMädchen in Uniform (1931)
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWings (1927)
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Easy Virtue?
The closest matches to Easy Virtue are 7th Heaven (1927), The Pleasure Garden (1925) and A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Easy Virtue?
People who watched Easy Virtue most often go on to 7th Heaven (1927), The Pleasure Garden (1925) and A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923).
What is the highest-rated movie like Easy Virtue?
The Circus (1928), rated 7.9/10 by 926 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Easy Virtue?
Gertrud (1964) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Easy Virtue?
Yes: 7th Heaven (1927), The Pleasure Garden (1925) and A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923).
How are movies similar to Easy Virtue chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Easy Virtue, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.