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Movies that feel like 3-Iron (2004)

If you loved 3-Iron, the closest films we have are Veer-Zaara (2004), Better Days (2019) and Days of Being Wild (1990). All three share 3-Iron's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Kim Ki-dukcontemplativeromantictendergritty

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Veer-Zaara
2004 Β· dir. Yash Chopra
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Common ground in both: prison and love of one's life

The difference: Missing the grit of 3-Iron

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

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Better Days
2019 Β· dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.6drama Β· crime Β· romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

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Days of Being Wild
1990 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.4crime Β· drama Β· romance

Tender where it counts, gritty underneath

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

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Two Lovers
2008 Β· dir. James Gray
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: love of one's life

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.

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As Tears Go By
1988 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7drama Β· crime Β· romance

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

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Read My Lips
2001 Β· dir. Jacques Audiard
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.3crime Β· drama Β· romance

Romantic romance in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than 3-Iron does

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

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The Best Offer
2013 Β· dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
πŸ… 56%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance Β· crime

Crime built on tenderness, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

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Days of Heaven
1978 Β· dir. Terrence Malick
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

The same two preoccupations: husband wife relationship, and love triangle

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

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Head-On
2004 Β· dir. Fatih Akin
β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

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Badlands
1974 Β· dir. Terrence Malick
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance Β· crime

Both lean on grit more than on romance

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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The Man Who Copied
2003 Β· dir. Jorge Furtado
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Romantic crime, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than 3-Iron does

A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money.

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45 Years
2015 Β· dir. Andrew Haigh
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

Common ground: husband wife relationship

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

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