Movies like Four Daughters (1938)
The best movies like Four Daughters (1938) are Rhapsody in Blue (1945), Make a Wish (1937) and Deception (1946). If Four Daughters hooked you with its drama and music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Make a Wish (1937)
While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Chip Winters befriends a famed composer Johnny Selden. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Selden at last finds it when he meets Chip's gorgeous mother Irene Winters, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiancé Walter Mays refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Deception (1946)
After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & drama
San Francisco (1936)
A beautiful singer and a battling priest try to reform a Barbary Coast saloon owner in the days before the great earthquake and subsequent fires in 1906.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPenny Serenade (1941)
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight and Day (1946)
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJezebel (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 thisMorning 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 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 thisLittle Women (1949)
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Great Waltz (1938)
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
Pot o' Gold (1941)
Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Becky Sharp (1935)
In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Stella 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 thisThey Shall Have Music (1939)
The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & drama
The Littlest Rebel (1935)
Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virgie and Uncle Billy beg President Lincoln to intercede.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & music
The Rogue Song (1930)
In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & romance
Little Women (1933)
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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 thisTest Pilot (1938)
Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSteamboat Round the Bend (1935)
A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Kentucky (1938)
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Star! (1968)
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Still Believe (2020)
The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & music
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHigh Strung (2016)
When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Me Tender (1956)
After the Civil War, Confederate soldiers Clint and Vance Reno steal a Union payroll, leading to conflict when the younger marries the woman his older brother loves.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & music
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Four Daughters?
The closest matches to Four Daughters are Rhapsody in Blue (1945), Make a Wish (1937) and Deception (1946). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Four Daughters?
People who watched Four Daughters most often go on to Rhapsody in Blue (1945), Make a Wish (1937) and Deception (1946).
What is the highest-rated movie like Four Daughters?
I Still Believe (2020), rated 7.6/10 by 1,255 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Four Daughters?
I Still Believe (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Four Daughters?
Yes: Rhapsody in Blue (1945), Make a Wish (1937) and Deception (1946).
How are movies similar to Four Daughters chosen?
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