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Movies that feel likeA Summer's Tale (1996)

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.

If you loved A Summer's Tale, the closest films we have are Show Me Love (1998), Devdas (2002) and Gregory's Girl (1980). All three share A Summer's Tale's romantic and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Slums of Beverly Hills (1998).

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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%★ 7.5comedy · romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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Devdas
2002 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
★ 7.6drama · romance

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

The difference: Easier on the wit than A Summer's Tale

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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Gregory's Girl
1980 · dir. Bill Forsyth
🍅 95%★ 7.1comedy · romance

Common ground: growing up

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010 · dir. Anna Boden
🍅 58%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romance

Both land stillness and wit at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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Punch-Drunk Love
2002 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 79%★ 7.3romance · drama · comedy

Playful where it counts, wistful underneath

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · drama · romanceMax

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
★ 6.3comedy · romance · drama

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2010s show

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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The Quiet Man
1952 · dir. John Ford
🍅 91%★ 7.7romance · comedy · drama

Contemplative comedy in both cases

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · dir. Tamara Jenkins
🍅 82%★ 6.7comedy · drama

Drama built on wit, twice over

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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Home for the Holidays
1995 · dir. Jodie Foster
🍅 63%★ 6.6comedy · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: holiday

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

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The Graduate
1967 · dir. Mike Nichols
🍅 87%★ 8drama · romance · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: graduate

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 · dir. Gil Junger
🍅 72%★ 7.4comedy · romance · dramaDisney+

Playful romance, and it commits to that

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

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