Movies like Alice Adams (1935)
The best movies like Alice Adams (1935) are The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Our Town (1940) and Theodora Goes Wild (1936). If Alice Adams 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 ratedMr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)7.5/10 from 420 votes
- NewestBlind (2017)Released 2017
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOur Town (1940)
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDodsworth (1936)
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThese Three (1936)
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOur Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
Welcome to Fuller Junction, Wisconsin, a friendly small town settled by Norwegian farmers. Here we see the exploits of two young cousins, Selma and Arnold, who learn about their world and experience the ups and downs of life as the season pass.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Kitty Foyle (1940)
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisB.F.'s Daughter (1948)
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Hard Way (1943)
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Johnny Belinda (1948)
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKings Row (1942)
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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
Beyond the Forest (1949)
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPride and Prejudice (1940)
In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPenny Serenade (1941)
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Little Foxes (1941)
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJezebel (1938)
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlossoms in the Dust (1941)
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Stella Dallas (1937)
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNow, Voyager (1942)
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & 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 thisMake Way for Tomorrow (1937)
An elderly couple are forced to separate themselves from each other after their children refuse to take both into one house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMrs. Parkington (1944)
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner and financier Augustus Parkington. He moves them to New York, tries to remake her into a society woman, and establishes their home among the wealthiest of New York's high society. Family and social life is not always peaceful, however, and she guides us, in flashbacks, through the rises and falls of the Parkington family fortunes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Carrie (1952)
In the late 1890s, the ambitious, innocent Carrie arrives in Chicago’s South Side and stays with her nagging, dullish married sister. She then runs for help to traveling salesman Charles Drouet. She soon becomes his mistress, but falls in love with married restaurant manager George Hurstwood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Women (1933)
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Citadel (1938)
Young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor Andrew Manson arrives in Wales and takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does poorly, but when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Fountainhead (1949)
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlind (2017)
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Alice Adams?
The closest matches to Alice Adams are The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Our Town (1940) and Theodora Goes Wild (1936). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Alice Adams?
People who watched Alice Adams most often go on to The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Our Town (1940) and Theodora Goes Wild (1936).
What is the highest-rated movie like Alice Adams?
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), rated 7.5/10 by 420 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Alice Adams?
Blind (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Alice Adams?
Yes: The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Our Town (1940) and Theodora Goes Wild (1936).
How are movies similar to Alice Adams chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Alice Adams, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.