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Movies that feel like A Heart in Winter (1992)

If you loved A Heart in Winter, the closest films we have are Phantom Thread (2017), The Great Gatsby (2013) and Titanic (1997). All three share A Heart in Winter's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Apple TV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

πŸ… 85% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Claude Sautetcontemplativeromantictenderobsessive

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If A Heart in Winter hit the spot, these will too

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Phantom Thread
2017 Β· dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance

Obsession is the engine of both

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2010s show

In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.

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The Great Gatsby
2013 Β· dir. Baz Luhrmann
πŸ… 49%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: obsession

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Nick Carraway arrives in New York in 1922, an era of loose morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious millionaire Gatsby and his bewitching cousin Daisy. Soon, Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. Bearing witness to this new world, Nick pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and unforgettable tragedy -- mirroring our own times and struggles.​

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Titanic
1997 Β· dir. James Cameron
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

The difference: Missing the obsession of A Heart in Winter

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancΓ©. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its deathβ€”on its first and last voyageβ€”on April 15, 1912.

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 Β· dir. Lasse HallstrΓΆm
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.7romance Β· drama

Tender drama, and it commits to that

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

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The Remains of the Day
1993 Β· dir. James Ivory
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Romance built on stillness, twice over

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

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Sense and Sensibility
1995 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Romantic drama in both cases

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

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The Age of Innocence
1993 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

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Before Sunrise
1995 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1drama Β· romance

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

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Happy Together
1997 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.

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

Both keep circling back to love

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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The Notebook
2004 Β· dir. Nick Cassavetes
πŸ… 55%β˜… 7.8romance Β· drama

Both sit in the same tender register

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

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

Both built around love

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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