Movies like A Free Soul (1931)
The best movies like A Free Soul (1931) are An American Tragedy (1931), City Streets (1931) and The Doorway to Hell (1930). If A Free Soul hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGrand Hotel (1932)7.0/10 from 372 votes
- NewestDark Victory (1939)Released 1939
An 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
City Streets (1931)
A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Doorway to Hell (1930)
A vicious crime lord decides that he has had enough and much to the shock of his colleagues decides to give the business to his second in command and retire to Florida after marrying his moll. Unfortunately, he has no idea that she and the man are lovers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bad Girl (1931)
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Forbidden (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 thisHot Saturday (1932)
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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 thisOne 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 thisCity 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 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 thisGrand Hotel (1932)
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Little Giant (1933)
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Susan Lenox (1931)
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Tiger Shark (1932)
A Portuguese tuna fisherman catches his bride with his first mate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Arrowsmith (1931)
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
American Madness (1932)
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToday 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
Twentieth Century (1934)
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOf Human Bondage (1934)
A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPossessed (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 thisThe Bad Sister (1931)
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. Lindley although she knows he loves Marianne. Marianne returns and marries a wealthy young man, and Lindley turns his love toward Laura.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Night After Night (1932)
A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The 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 thisMe and My Gal (1932)
Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe House of Rothschild (1934)
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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 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 drama & 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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Free Soul?
The closest matches to A Free Soul are An American Tragedy (1931), City Streets (1931) and The Doorway to Hell (1930). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Free Soul?
People who watched A Free Soul most often go on to An American Tragedy (1931), City Streets (1931) and The Doorway to Hell (1930).
What is the highest-rated movie like A Free Soul?
Grand Hotel (1932), rated 7.0/10 by 372 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Free Soul?
Dark Victory (1939) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like A Free Soul?
Yes: An American Tragedy (1931), City Streets (1931) and The Doorway to Hell (1930).
How are movies similar to A Free Soul chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Free Soul, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.