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Movies that feel likeA Walk to Remember (2002)

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.

If you loved A Walk to Remember, the closest films we have are Devdas (2002), Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) and Cinema Paradiso (1988). All three share A Walk to Remember'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 A Brighter Summer Day (1991).

🍅 30% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adam Shankmancontemplativeromantictenderwistful
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Devdas
2002 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
★ 7.6drama · romance

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Cinema Paradiso
1988 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 90%★ 8.5drama · romance

Common ground: nostalgic

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

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Little Women
2019 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 95%★ 7.8drama · romanceHulu

Both are built on the same subject: growing up

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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

Tender where it counts, wistful underneath

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

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

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than A Walk to Remember 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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A Brighter Summer Day
1991 · dir. Edward Yang
🍅 100%★ 8.2crime · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: high school

The difference: Leans harder into crime than A Walk to Remember does

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

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Call Me by Your Name
2017 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 95%★ 7.8romance · dramaNetflix

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Romantic romance in both cases

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

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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