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Movies that feel like To Have and Have Not (1945)

If you loved To Have and Have Not, the closest films we have are Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Mrs. Miniver (1942) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). All three share To Have and Have Not's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.

πŸ… 97% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Howard Hawksepicromantictenderbleakatmospheric

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Only Angels Have Wings
1939 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6romance Β· adventure Β· drama

The same hand behind both of them: Howard Hawks

The difference: Missing the bleakness of To Have and Have Not

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii

The difference: None of the scale To Have and Have Not is built on

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· war

Common ground: world war ii

The difference: Sits closer to drama than To Have and Have Not does

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· drama

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

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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Gilda
1946 Β· dir. Charles Vidor
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: film noir

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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

Bleak romance, and it commits to that

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 Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 Β· dir. Tay Garnett
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance Β· crime

One thread runs through both: film noir

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

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To Be or Not to Be
1942 Β· dir. Ernst Lubitsch
πŸ… 96%β˜… 8.1comedy Β· war Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: nazi

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

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

War with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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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The Big Sleep
1946 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9mystery Β· crime Β· thriller

Both are Howard Hawks's work, and they rhyme

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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His Girl Friday
1940 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on adventure

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

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Scarface
1932 Β· dir. Howard Hawks
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.7crime Β· action Β· drama

Atmospheric adventure in both cases

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

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