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Movies that feel like A Beautiful Life (2023)

If you loved A Beautiful Life, the closest films we have are Toscana (2022), Beyond the Universe (2022) and Leto (2018). All three share A Beautiful Life's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

When a young fisherman with a hidden talent gets discovered by a music producer, he must decide if he's ready to open himself up to stardom — and love.

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mehdi Avazcontemplativestylishromantictender
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Toscana
2022 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 83%5.7comedy · romance · drama

Both are Mehdi Avaz's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

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Beyond the Universe
2022 · dir. Diego Freitas
6.6romance · drama · music

The same mix in both: stillness, then style

While waiting for a kidney transplant, a young pianist finds an unexpected connection with her doctor — and the courage to fulfill her musical dreams.

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Leto
2018 · dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
🍅 78%7.3music · drama

Drama built on romance, twice over

The difference: None of the tenderness A Beautiful Life is built on

Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LPs by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoi. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.

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Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988 · dir. Terence Davies
🍅 80%7.4drama · music

Common ground: singer

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.

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Cold War
2018 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 92%7.5romance · music · drama

Tender music, and it commits to that

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

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Tender Mercies
1983 · dir. Bruce Beresford
🍅 83%7.3drama · music · romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Alcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.

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Step Up
2006 · dir. Anne Fletcher
🍅 21%6.5music · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: romantic

The difference: Sits closer to crime than A Beautiful Life does

Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

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Once
2007 · dir. John Carney
🍅 97%7.8drama · music · romance

Both lean on style more than on drama

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.

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The Souvenir
2019 · dir. Joanna Hogg
🍅 90%6.4drama · romance

Romantic romance in both cases

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

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We Are the Best!
2013 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 97%7.1drama · music

Contemplative music, and it commits to that

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band—despite not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%7drama · romance

Tender drama, and it commits to that

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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

One thread runs through both: awestruck

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than A Beautiful Life 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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