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Movies that feel like Anna Karenina (2012)

If you loved Anna Karenina, the closest films we have are Silver Skates (2020), Pride & Prejudice (2005) and A Royal Affair (2012). All three share Anna Karenina'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 and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joe Wrightcontemplativeromantictenderepic

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Silver Skates
2020 · dir. Michael Lockshin
🍅 40%7.1adventure · drama · romance

Common ground in both: st. petersburg, russia and 19th century

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Anna Karenina does

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

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Pride & Prejudice
2005 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 87%7.8drama · romance

Joe Wright directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the scale Anna Karenina is built on

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

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

Both land stillness and romance at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

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The Mountain Between Us
2017 · dir. Hany Abu-Assad
🍅 39%6.4drama · adventure · romance

The same mix in both: tenderness, then scale

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

Romantic romance in both cases

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

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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 80%7.5romance · history · drama

Tender history, and it commits to that

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

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

Drama built on scale, twice over

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

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Cinderella Man
2005 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 80%8romance · drama · history

Romantic history in both cases

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

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The Wind Rises
2013 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 88%7.8animation · drama · history

Tender drama in both cases

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

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The Best of Me
2014 · dir. Michael Hoffman
🍅 12%6.7drama · romance

The same romance instincts

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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