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Movies that feel like As Tears Go By (1988)

If you loved As Tears Go By, the closest films we have are Days of Being Wild (1990), Happy Together (1997) and Fallen Angels (1995). All three share As Tears Go By's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

πŸ… 85% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Wong Kar-Waicontemplativegrittyromantictender
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Days of Being Wild
1990 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.4crime Β· drama Β· romance

Both are Wong Kar-Wai's work, and they rhyme

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

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Happy Together
1997 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Wong Kar-Wai working the same nerve twice

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as As Tears Go By

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.

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Fallen Angels
1995 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5action Β· romance Β· crime

The same mix in both: grit, then romance

The difference: None of the stillness As Tears Go By is built on

An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

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In the Mood for Love
2000 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

Both land stillness and tenderness at once

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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Read My Lips
2001 Β· dir. Jacques Audiard
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.3crime Β· drama Β· romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than As Tears Go By does

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

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The Woman Next Door
1981 Β· dir. FranΓ§ois Truffaut
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

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Through the Olive Trees
1995 Β· dir. Abbas Kiarostami
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on crime

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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Better Days
2019 Β· dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.6drama Β· crime Β· romance

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 2010s show

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

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Badlands
1974 Β· dir. Terrence Malick
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance Β· crime

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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Pierrot le Fou
1965 Β· dir. Jean-Luc Godard
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance Β· crime

Romance built on grit, twice over

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

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3-Iron
2004 Β· dir. Kim Ki-duk
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance Β· crime

Romantic drama in both cases

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

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Port of Shadows
1938 Β· dir. Marcel CarnΓ©
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7romance Β· drama Β· crime

Same instincts, 50 years apart

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

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