Movies like Of Human Bondage (1934)
The best movies like Of Human Bondage (1934) are Morning Glory (1933), Man of the World (1931) and One Way Passage (1932). If Of Human Bondage hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedNow, Voyager (1942)7.4/10 from 249 votes
- NewestThe Rainmaker (1956)Released 1956
Morning Glory (1933)
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan of the World (1931)
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
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 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 thisForbidden (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 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 thisDark Victory (1939)
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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
City Girl (1930)
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies 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
Sadie 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
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 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 thisHeroes for Sale (1933)
World War I veteran Tom Holmes is marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his battle wounds. Over the years, he comes to experience both the pain of misfortune and a love for other human beings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A 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 thisDeath Takes a Holiday (1934)
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
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 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
Jezebel (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 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
The 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 thisSvengali (1931)
In late 19th-century Paris, a sinister musical maestro uses hypnotism to control an artist's model named Trilby, turning her into a famous opera singer.
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
Today 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
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 thisStella 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 thisThe Rainmaker (1956)
Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secrect yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDangerous (1935)
Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn This Our Life (1942)
An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCome and Get It (1936)
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Of Human Bondage?
The closest matches to Of Human Bondage are Morning Glory (1933), Man of the World (1931) and One Way Passage (1932). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Of Human Bondage?
People who watched Of Human Bondage most often go on to Morning Glory (1933), Man of the World (1931) and One Way Passage (1932).
What is the highest-rated movie like Of Human Bondage?
Now, Voyager (1942), rated 7.4/10 by 249 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Of Human Bondage?
The Rainmaker (1956) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Of Human Bondage?
Yes: Morning Glory (1933), Man of the World (1931) and One Way Passage (1932).
How are movies similar to Of Human Bondage chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Of Human Bondage, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.