Movies Like Forever a Woman (1955)

Forever a Woman is a 1955 drama, romance film from Kinuyo Tanaka with a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Love Is All You Need and In Bed with Victoria.

Drama Romance

Love Is All You Need

2012

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

6.0

MagicScore

In Bed with Victoria

2016

Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an old client. Her life is about to take a new turn.

5.8

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The Braid

2023

India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.

7.4

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Under the Tuscan Sun

2003

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

6.9

MagicScore

Tig

2015

An intimate documentary that follows Tig Notaro, a Los Angeles based comedian, who just days after being diagnosed with invasive stage II breast cancer changed the course of her career with a poignant stand-up set that became legendary overnight. It explores Tig's extraordinary journey as her career ignites and as her life unfolds in grand and unexpected ways, all the while continuing to battle a life-threatening illness and falling in love.

7.2

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Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

2013

Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.

7.0

MagicScore

Mary Shelley

2017

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

7.0

MagicScore

Bright Star

2009

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

6.6

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The Prince of Tides

1991

A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.

6.6

MagicScore

#10

Total Eclipse

1995

Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Amour Fou

2014

Heinrich wishes to conquer death through love, and when he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance, she expresses interest in a suicide pact when she learns she has a terminal illness.

6.4

MagicScore

#12

Sylvia

2003

Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

5.7

MagicScore

#13

The Color of Time

2012

A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

3.9

MagicScore

#14

Papusza

2013

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.

7.8

MagicScore

#15

Ode to Joy

2019

Charlie suffers from a serious disease that causes acute narcolepsy whenever he is happy. Although he develops a variety of techniques to deny himself pleasure and deal with his sleep issues, they’re put to the test when he falls in love.

6.2

MagicScore

#16

Burning Man

2011

Tom is a British chef in a Bondi restaurant who seems to have decided there are no longer any rules he needs to obey. Whatever Tom is up to, his actions seem to be tolerated by those around him. As Tom descends into darkness, fragments of a different story begin to emerge. All the women in his world are trying in their own, very different ways to help put him back together.

5.9

MagicScore

#17

The Danish Poet

2006

A woman ponders over the strange coincidences that made her forefathers and -mothers meet and create the premises for her becoming the person that she is.

7.0

MagicScore

#18

P.S.

2004

Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.

5.6

MagicScore

#19

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

2006

Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and times. The interview is interspersed with archive photos and exuberant praise and live perfomances from an eclectic mix of musicians, including: Jarvis Cocker, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, ANOHNI, The Handsome Family and U2's Bono and The Edge.

6.4

MagicScore

#20

Elsa the Rose

1966

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

6.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Forever a Woman?

The top films similar to Forever a Woman by MovieMagicScore are Love Is All You Need (6.0), In Bed with Victoria (5.8), The Braid (7.4). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Forever a Woman worth watching?

Forever a Woman holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10 from 21 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Forever a Woman?

Forever a Woman (1955) is a drama, romance film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka, starring Yumeji Tsukioka, Masayuki Mori, Ryōji Hayama.

Where can I find more recommendations like Forever a Woman?

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About movies like Forever a Woman

This ranked list pairs Forever a Woman (1955), a drama and romance film from Kinuyo Tanaka, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Yumeji Tsukioka take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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