Movies like A Lesson in Love (1954)
The best movies like A Lesson in Love (1954) are Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Two for the Road (1967) and Port of Call (1948). If A Lesson in Love hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedWild Strawberries (1957)8.1/10 from 1,886 votes
- NewestWhy Did I Get Married Again? (2026)Released 2026
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPort of Call (1948)
A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Touch (1971)
A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with an American archaeologist, unaware of his emotional scars as a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisWaiting Women (1952)
The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDreams (1955)
Two women—a fashion executive and her young model—experience parallel romantic disappointments during a trip to Gothenburg, exposing generational differences in desire, illusion, and emotional endurance. A transitional work in Ingmar Bergman’s mid-1950s cinema.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisScenes from a Marriage (1974)
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAll These Women (1964)
Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDear John (1964)
Divorced skipper John meets Anita, a single mother, at a port and spends the weekend with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Summer Interlude (1951)
During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt Rains on Our Love (1946)
A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Ship to India (1947)
Returning home after seven years at sea, a sailor relives his youth aboard a salvage ship dominated by his abusive father, recalling love, betrayal, and the desire to escape. Told in flashback, the film explores family conflict, longing, and moral reckoning in an early milestone of Ingmar Bergman’s career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girls (1968)
As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play. Soon, onstage drama, offstage reality, and surrealist fantasies begin to collide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Loving Couples (1964)
As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Miss Julie (1951)
Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFaithless (2000)
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSummer with Monika (1953)
One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThirst (1949)
A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rules of the Game (1939)
The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Silence (1963)
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWild Strawberries (1957)
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMy American Uncle (1980)
Professor Henri Laborit uses three people's stories to discuss behaviourist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety: René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing; Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite; and Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTo Joy (1950)
A young orchestra violinist’s fear of mediocrity and drive for artistic success strain his marriage to a fellow musician. Told largely in flashback and shaped by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the film examines ambition, love, and loss in early Ingmar Bergman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Night at Maud's (1969)
Devout Roman Catholic Jean-Louis subscribes to an austere moral code influenced by the philosophy of 17th-century physicist Blaise Pascal. When he spots a pretty girl at church, he promises to one day marry her. But then an old friend introduces him to alluring divorcee Maud. After a conversation about love and credo, the chaste Jean-Louis spends the night at Maud's, conflicted about his desires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJules and Jim (1962)
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrief Encounter (1945)
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIntermezzo (1936)
An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter's music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Nikander, a rubbish collector and would-be entrepreneur, finds his plans for success dashed when his business associate dies. One evening, he meets Ilona, a down-on-her-luck cashier, in a local supermarket. Falteringly, a bond begins to develop between them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Best You Can (2025)
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by the arrival of sharp but chronically underachieving security guard Stan Olszewski in this smart rom-com that reunites Bacon and Sedgwick on screen for the first time in 20 years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhy Did I Get Married Again? (2026)
The couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did we get married again?"
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Lesson in Love?
The closest matches to A Lesson in Love are Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Two for the Road (1967) and Port of Call (1948). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Lesson in Love?
People who watched A Lesson in Love most often go on to Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Two for the Road (1967) and Port of Call (1948).
What is the highest-rated movie like A Lesson in Love?
Wild Strawberries (1957), rated 8.1/10 by 1,886 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Lesson in Love?
Why Did I Get Married Again? (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to A Lesson in Love chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Lesson in Love, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.