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Movies that feel likeA Silent Voice: The Movie (2016)

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

If you loved A Silent Voice: The Movie, the closest films we have are The Virgin Suicides (2000), All the Bright Places (2020) and The Way He Looks (2014). All three share A Silent Voice: The Movie's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Flavors of Youth (2018).

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

Both are working the same pair: suicide, suicide attempt

The difference: Goes its own way on the warmth

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

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All the Bright Places
2020 · dir. Brett Haley
🍅 67%★ 6.6romance · dramaNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

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

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

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

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

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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Past Lives
2023 · dir. Celine Song
🍅 95%★ 7.8drama · romanceRent or buy

Both land stillness and romance at once

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

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

Common ground: growing up

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

The same mix in both: tenderness, then warmth

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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Collateral Beauty
2016 · dir. David Frankel
🍅 14%★ 6.8drama · romance

Melancholy drama in both cases

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012 · dir. Stephen Chbosky
🍅 85%★ 7.9dramaPrime Video

The same two preoccupations: high school, and school

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

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The Garden of Words
2013 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
★ 7.4animation · drama · romance

Animation built on wistfulness, twice over

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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5 Centimeters per Second
2007 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
★ 7.4animation · romance · dramaMax

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

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.

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

Drama with a pulse of 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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