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Movies that feel like After the Wedding (2006)

If you loved After the Wedding, the closest films we have are Yi Yi (2000), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) and Love Is All You Need (2012). All three share After the Wedding'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 Netflix, HBO Max and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Susanne Biercontemplativeromantic
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Yi Yi
2000 Β· dir. Edward Yang
β˜… 8.1drama

Common ground in both: daughter and wedding

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2013 Β· dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
πŸ… 71%β˜… 8.2drama

Both are built on the same subject: family

The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.

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Love Is All You Need
2012 Β· dir. Susanne Bier
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Both are Susanne Bier's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than After the Wedding does

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

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Black Narcissus
1947 Β· dir. Michael Powell
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7drama

The same preoccupation in both: india

The difference: 59 years apart, and the 1940s show

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

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The Sea Inside
2004 Β· dir. Alejandro AmenΓ‘bar
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

RamΓ³n Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. RamΓ³n fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, RamΓ³n manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

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Loveless
2017 Β· dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.6drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.

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Treeless Mountain
2009 Β· dir. So Yong Kim
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Missing the romance of After the Wedding

A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.

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Veer-Zaara
2004 Β· dir. Yash Chopra
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: india

The difference: Sits closer to romance than After the Wedding does

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

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From Up on Poppy Hill
2011 Β· dir. Goro Miyazaki
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4animation Β· drama

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympicsβ€”and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shunβ€”but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

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Floating Weeds
1959 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9drama

Both sit in the same romantic register

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

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Rocky Balboa
2006 Β· dir. Sylvester Stallone
πŸ… 78%β˜… 7.1drama

Drama of the same temperament

When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging the Italian Stallion to a 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of retirement and face an opponent who's faster, stronger and thirty years his junior. Rocky takes on Dixon in what will become the greatest fight in boxing history!

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With Every Heartbeat
2011 Β· dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining
β˜… 6.8romance Β· drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

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