20 best movies like The Gay Sisters (1942)

List of the best movies like The Gay Sisters (1942): Crimson Peak, The Last Song, Sylvie's Love, The First Grader, Let It Snow, Wicked Deeds, Gloria Bell, Christmas Inheritance, In a Relationship, The Longest Week.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:31

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

    A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA

    When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Kenya, France

    The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA

    A resort executive is sent to a newly purchased lodge in Maine with instructions to turn it in to an ultra-modern resort, and finds a charming, successful lodge loaded with holiday spirit. Will she stick with her boss’s plans to tear everything down or find a way to save what she has come to love? Stars Candace Cameron-Bure and Alan Thicke.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    A wife begins to confuse fantasy with reality after she is seduced by the hot tub repairman and others while her husband is out of town.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, Chile

    Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    To inherit her father's company, socialite Ellen must first visit his small hometown, where she learns the value of hard work and helping others.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:20

    In a Relationship is a spirited yet achingly tender look at modern love. Shot mockumentary style, this short film follows two young couples in opposite stages of romance: Matt and Willa, who have been hooking up for six days, and Owen and Abby, who are trying in vain to breathe new life into a five year relationship that is growing stale. It's an exploration of the grey areas of contemporary dating and how much we keep from the people we're closest to.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Left broke and homeless by his wealthy parents' divorce, a young man moves in with an old friend and finally meets the woman of his dreams -- only to discover she's already dating his friend.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA

    A struggling writer is forced to fake a relationship to save her career, while overlooking the love of a longtime friend.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryCanada, USA

    Popular romance novelist Izzi Simmons spends every Christmas at her favorite snowy bed & breakfast, but this year, she's faced with an impending deadline and a severe case of writer's block. Luckily, inspiration strikes in the unlikely form of the B&B's new owner Matt, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the handsome hero from Izzi's novels. As both partake in the lodge's annual itinerary of Christmas activities, Izzi's writer's block is cured and the first pages of her and Matt's own love story may just be beginning.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
    CountryUSA

    A coming of age story about a washed up twenty something year old, the onetime hometown hero and track star, who is convinced by a local sweetheart to run a marathon and get his life back on track.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration00:30

    A down-on-her-luck young woman who falls into a job as a personal assistant to a star quarterback sidelined with an injury. He's never had a female assistant before and she knows nothing about football.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Jenna agrees to a sexy weekend fling with her materialistic girlfriend Kate and the worldly Mia, but as the night unfolds, Jenna notices strange details about each of them, as the love triangle starts to crack.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Love for the same woman causes conflict between an over-achieving blind athlete and the brother who made him that way.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryPortugal, France, Poland, USA

    Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A man must fight for his fiancée's affection, after her old college friend visits with plans of rekindling more than just a friendship.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, sport
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:35

    Alexis Winston is a young girl who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. While practicing, Alexis suffers a terrible accident that takes her sight and threatens to destroy her dreams. In the midst of feeling sorry for herself she falls in love with a handsome young man named Nick who (with help from her family) helps her to realize that she can still fulfill her dreams.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    FIVE DANCES, written and directed by Alan Brown, is a creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York 'downtown' modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer (the amazing Ryan Steele) with talent to burn, who must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a life and career for himself. The film features five of New York's most gifted dancers acting on film for the very first time, and performing the choreography of internationally acclaimed choreographer Jonah Bokaer.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A separated couple feign marital bliss on national television to help their town’s Christmas festival – and their business. But what will the future hold for them when rekindled love is complicated by new opportunities?

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
    CountryUSA

    Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Over the course of one night a group of college friends try to navigate their complicated love lives before they leave for winter break.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

      Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.




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