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Movies that feel like Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

If you loved Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, the closest films we have are Days of Heaven (1978), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and A Man and a Woman (1966). All three share Ali: Fear Eats the Soul's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinderromantictendercontemplative

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Days of Heaven
1978 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 93%7.7drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: husband wife relationship

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · dir. Jacques Demy
🍅 97%7.8drama · romance

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

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A Man and a Woman
1966 · dir. Claude Lelouch
🍅 75%7.5drama · romance

Both trade on stillness more than on being romance

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

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Titanic
1997 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 88%8drama · romance

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

The difference: A 1990s film, from a different era of filmmaking

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

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Splendor in the Grass
1961 · dir. Elia Kazan
🍅 75%7.7drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 90%7.7romance · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

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Before Sunrise
1995 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 100%8.1drama · romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

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In the Mood for Love
2000 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 92%8drama · romance

Husband wife relationship is the engine of both

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

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The Remains of the Day
1993 · dir. James Ivory
🍅 96%7.8drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

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Journey to Italy
1954 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 96%7.3drama · romance

A streak of stillness through both

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

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Marty
1955 · dir. Delbert Mann
🍅 96%7.7drama · romance

Both are romance through and through

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.

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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 97%7.9drama · romance

Drama approached the same way

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

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