Movies like Angel (1937)
The best movies like Angel (1937) are Design for Living (1933), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and Blonde Venus (1932). If Angel 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 ratedHis Girl Friday (1940)7.4/10 from 994 votes
- NewestMadame (2017)Released 2017
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 comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWife vs. Secretary (1936)
Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlonde Venus (1932)
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retired German entertainer returns to the cabaret as Blonde Venus and catches the eye of a wealthy politician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlatinum Blonde (1931)
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMidnight (1939)
An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCluny Brown (1946)
Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHoliday (1930)
A young man is torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition of his wealthy fiancée's family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
The Good Fairy (1935)
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
His Girl Friday (1940)
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTrouble in Paradise (1932)
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRomance (1930)
A beautiful opera star kept by a rich older man falls in love with a young clergyman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Awful Truth (1937)
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEasy Living (1937)
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHis Private Secretary (1933)
Dick Wallace wants to marry a minister's grand-daughter but his father, who wants him to get work on his company's business, is opposed. She takes a job with the company to prove she's okay.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Love Parade (1929)
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Merry Widow (1934)
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHoliday (1938)
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMade for Each Other (1939)
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMerrily We Go to Hell (1932)
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Palm Beach Story (1942)
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDesire (1936)
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But getting the pearls back from him proves to be difficult without falling in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLibeled Lady (1936)
When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lady Eve (1941)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Devil Is a Woman (1935)
In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the party and visit his friend Capt. Don Pasqual 'Pasqualito' Costelar. However, he flirts with the mysterious Concha Perez and they schedule to meet each other later. When Antonio meets Pasqualito, his old friend discloses his frustrated relationship with the promiscuous Concha and her greedy mother and how his life was ruined by his obsession for the beautiful demimondaine. Pasqualito makes Antonio promise that he would not see Concha. However, when Antonio meets Concha, she seduces him and the long friendship between Antonio and Pasqualito is disrupted
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo for the Road (1967)
Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisParis Can Wait (2016)
Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successful, driven but inattentive movie producer, she unexpectedly finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with Jacques, a business associate of her husband. What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a carefree two-day adventure replete with diversions involving picturesque sights, fine food and wine, humor, wisdom and romance - reawakening Anne's senses and giving her a new lust for life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadame (2017)
Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnemies, a Love Story (1989)
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Old Lady (2014)
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Angel?
The closest matches to Angel are Design for Living (1933), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and Blonde Venus (1932). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Angel?
People who watched Angel most often go on to Design for Living (1933), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and Blonde Venus (1932).
What is the highest-rated movie like Angel?
His Girl Friday (1940), rated 7.4/10 by 994 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Angel?
Madame (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Angel?
Yes: Design for Living (1933), Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and Blonde Venus (1932).
How are movies similar to Angel chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Angel, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.