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Movies that feel like Adrift (2018)

If you loved Adrift, the closest films we have are The Mountain Between Us (2017), Safe Haven (2013) and Bajirao Mastani (2015). All three share Adrift's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Kino Film Collection and others, checked against today's data.

Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope of rescue, Tami must now find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Baltasar Kormákurtenseromantictenderepic
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The Mountain Between Us
2017 · dir. Hany Abu-Assad
🍅 39%6.4drama · adventure · romance

The same preoccupation in both: survival

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.

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Safe Haven
2013 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 13%6.7romance · thriller

Both land tension and romance at once

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Adrift

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

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Bajirao Mastani
2015 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
🍅 67%7.3history · romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: a true story

The difference: None of the tension Adrift is built on

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

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The Beach
2000 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 21%6.6drama · adventure · romance

The same mix in both: tenderness, then scale

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Adrift does

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

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Australia
2008 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 53%6.6adventure · romance · drama

Romantic romance in both cases

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

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Anna Karenina
2012 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 63%6.6drama · romance · history

Tender thriller, and it commits to that

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

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Never Look Away
2018 · dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
🍅 77%7.7drama · romance · history

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

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Attraction
2017 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 36%5.6drama · romance · science fiction

One thread runs through both: survival

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

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My Fault
2023 · dir. Domingo González
6.1drama · romance · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Noah must leave her city, boyfriend, and friends to move into William Leister's mansion, the flashy and wealthy husband of her mother Rafaela. As a proud and independent 17 year old, Noah resists living in a mansion surrounded by luxury. However, it is there where she meets Nick, her new stepbrother, and the clash of their strong personalities becomes evident from the very beginning.

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A Royal Affair
2012 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 90%7.5drama · history · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

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Brooklyn
2015 · dir. John Crowley
🍅 97%7.5drama · history · romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on adventure

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

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Victoria
2015 · dir. Sebastian Schipper
🍅 82%7.6crime · thriller · romance

Same instincts, 3 years apart

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

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