Movies like To Each His Own (1946)
The best movies like To Each His Own (1946) are Three Comrades (1938), Johnny Belinda (1948) and The Hard Way (1943). If To Each His Own hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Magnificent Ambersons (1942)7.3/10 from 510 votes
- NewestSummer and Smoke (1961)Released 1961
Three Comrades (1938)
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.
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 thisThe 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
Heroes 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
All I Desire (1953)
In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTomorrow Is Forever (1946)
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her kindly boss. Unknown to her, John has survived but is horribly disfigured and remains in Europe. Years later, on the eve of World War II, Elizabeth refuses to agree to her son's request to enlist and is stunned when an eerily familiar stranger named Kessler arrives from abroad and becomes involved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPilgrimage (1933)
A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Old Maid (1939)
The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOn Moonlight Bay (1951)
The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper young lady. Unfortunately William Sherman has unconventional ideas for the time. His ideas include not believing in marriage or money, which causes friction with Marjorie's father, who is the local bank vice president
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Human Comedy (1943)
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in the small town of Ithaca, California to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
All My Sons (1948)
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Random Harvest (1942)
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSummer and Smoke (1961)
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Old Acquaintance (1943)
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMr. Skeffington (1944)
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Great Lie (1941)
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThis Happy Breed (1944)
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Search (1948)
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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
In 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThese Wilder Years (1956)
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Stolen Life (1946)
When a woman’s twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond 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 thisThe Sun Shines Bright (1953)
With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLittle Fugitive (1953)
After a prank makes Joey Norton believe he killed his older brother, he runs away from home and spends the day at Coney Island while his brother tries to find him before their mother gets home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like To Each His Own?
The closest matches to To Each His Own are Three Comrades (1938), Johnny Belinda (1948) and The Hard Way (1943). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after To Each His Own?
People who watched To Each His Own most often go on to Three Comrades (1938), Johnny Belinda (1948) and The Hard Way (1943).
What is the highest-rated movie like To Each His Own?
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), rated 7.3/10 by 510 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like To Each His Own?
Summer and Smoke (1961) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like To Each His Own?
Yes: Three Comrades (1938), Johnny Belinda (1948) and The Hard Way (1943).
How are movies similar to To Each His Own chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside To Each His Own, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.