Movies like The Bigamist (1953)
The best movies like The Bigamist (1953) are Strangers When We Meet (1960), In This Our Life (1942) and Imitation of Life (1959). If The Bigamist 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 ratedMarty (1955)7.5/10 from 487 votes
- NewestStrangers When We Meet (1960)Released 1960
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
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 thisImitation of Life (1959)
In 1940s New York, a white widow who dreams of being on Broadway has a chance encounter with a black single mother, who becomes her maid.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe End of the Affair (1955)
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Reckless playboy Bob Merrick crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town’s only resuscitator while a local hero, Dr. Phillips, dies waiting for the life-saving device. Merrick then tries to right his wrongs with the doctor’s widow, Helen, falling in love with her in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClash by Night (1952)
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Best of Everything (1959)
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLonelyhearts (1959)
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of his underlings. Adam feels his readers' pain, and eventually, he takes an assignment to meet with Faye Doyle, who is exasperated by her crippled husband. When Faye tries to seduce Adam, he must choose between his job and his girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Trapeze (1956)
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThere's Always Tomorrow (1956)
When a toy manufacturer feels ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, he begins to rekindle a past love when a former employee comes back into his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPeyton Place (1957)
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarty (1955)
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll 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 & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWritten on the Wind (1956)
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Foolish Heart (1950)
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Passionate Friends (1949)
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Razor's Edge (1946)
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSome Came Running (1958)
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the chagrin of his social-climbing brother, and becomes close with an easy-going professional gambler and torn between two very different women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStory of a Love Affair (1950)
A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisH.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaisy Kenyon (1947)
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNot as a Stranger (1955)
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA 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 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 & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Bother to Knock (1952)
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHumoresque (1947)
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Bigamist?
The closest matches to The Bigamist are Strangers When We Meet (1960), In This Our Life (1942) and Imitation of Life (1959). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Bigamist?
People who watched The Bigamist most often go on to Strangers When We Meet (1960), In This Our Life (1942) and Imitation of Life (1959).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Bigamist?
Marty (1955), rated 7.5/10 by 487 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Bigamist?
Strangers When We Meet (1960) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Bigamist?
Yes: Strangers When We Meet (1960), In This Our Life (1942) and Imitation of Life (1959).
How are movies similar to The Bigamist chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Bigamist, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.