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Movies that feel like 5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

If you loved 5 Centimeters per Second, the closest films we have are The Garden of Words (2013), Weathering with You (2019) and Flavors of Youth (2018). All three share 5 Centimeters per Second's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Makoto Shinkairomantictendercontemplativewistful
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The Garden of Words
2013 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
7.4animation · drama · romance

Makoto Shinkai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

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Weathering with You
2019 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
🍅 92%7.5animation · drama · fantasy

The same hand behind both of them: Makoto Shinkai

The difference: Not nearly as wistful as 5 Centimeters per Second

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

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Flavors of Youth
2018 · dir. Joshua
🍅 83%6.6animation · romance · drama

Two things both keep coming back to: growing up and anime

The rigorous city life of China, while bustling and unforgiving, contains the everlasting memories of days past. Three stories told in three different cities, follow the loss of youth and the daunting realization of adulthood. Though reality may seem ever changing, unchangeable are the short-lived moments of one's childhood days. A plentiful bowl of noodles, the beauty of family and the trials of first love endure the inevitable flow of time, as three different characters explore the strength of bonds and the warmth of cherished memories. Within the disorder of the present world, witness these quaint stories recognize the comfort of the past, and attempt to revive the neglected flavors of youth.

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Devdas
2002 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
7.5drama · romance

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

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The Virgin Suicides
2000 · dir. Sofia Coppola
🍅 80%7.2drama · romance

Common ground: growing up

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

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A Walk to Remember
2002 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 30%7.3drama · romance

Contemplative where it counts, wistful underneath

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

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Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
🍅 88%7.6romance · drama

Romantic romance in both cases

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

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Y Tu Mamá También
2001 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 90%7.7drama · romance

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

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The Way He Looks
2014 · dir. Daniel Ribeiro
🍅 93%7.9drama · romance

Animation with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

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20th Century Girl
2022 · dir. Bang Woo-ri
🍅 86%7.4romance · drama

Both lean on wistfulness more than on romance

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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A Summer's Tale
1996 · dir. Éric Rohmer
🍅 98%7.6romance · drama · comedy

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than 5 Centimeters per Second does

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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2046
2004 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 87%7.4drama · science fiction · romance

Animation built on tenderness, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than 5 Centimeters per Second does

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

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