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Movies that feel likeGone with the Wind (1939)

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

If you loved Gone with the Wind, the closest films we have are Doctor Zhivago (1965), Mrs. Miniver (1942) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). All three share Gone with the Wind's contemplative and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Pandora's Box (1929).

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Doctor Zhivago
1965 Β· dir. David Lean
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance Β· war

Common ground: grief

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

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Mrs. Miniver
1942 Β· dir. William Wyler
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance Β· war

Contemplative and bleak in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Gone with the Wind

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 Β· dir. William Wyler
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8.1drama Β· romance Β· warPrime Video

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

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From Here to Eternity
1953 Β· dir. Fred Zinnemann
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.6war Β· romance Β· dramaPrime Video

Contemplative drama in both cases

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

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The Cranes Are Flying
1957 Β· dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
πŸ… 96%β˜… 8.3drama Β· romance Β· war

Bleak war, and it commits to that

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

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Ashes and Diamonds
1958 Β· dir. Andrzej Wajda
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7drama Β· war Β· romanceMax

Both lean on romance more than on romance

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

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The Hustler
1961 Β· dir. Robert Rossen
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

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Wings
1927 Β· dir. William A. Wellman
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.5drama Β· action Β· war

War built on tenderness, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into action than Gone with the Wind does

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.

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Pandora's Box
1929 Β· dir. G.W. Pabst
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7drama Β· crime Β· romanceMax

Both are built on the same subject: grief

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Gone with the Wind does

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

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Dear John
2010 Β· dir. Lasse HallstrΓΆm
πŸ… 28%β˜… 6.3drama Β· romance Β· warParamount+

One thread runs through both: romance

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.

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The Deer Hunter
1978 Β· dir. Michael Cimino
πŸ… 86%β˜… 8.1drama Β· warNetflix

Romance with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.

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P.S. I Love You
2007 Β· dir. Richard LaGravenese
β˜… 7drama Β· romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

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