
Movies that feel like Beauty and the Beast (1946)
If you loved Beauty and the Beast, the closest films we have are Breaking the Waves (1996), The African Queen (1952) and The Earrings of Madame de... (1953). All three share Beauty and the Beast's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.
If Beauty and the Beast hit the spot, these will too

Both keep coming back to the same thing: underdog
The difference: None of the dream logic Beauty and the Beast is built on

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance
The difference: Missing the dream logic of Beauty and the Beast

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

Common ground: black and white

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

Contemplative romance in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: rose
The difference: Sits closer to war than Beauty and the Beast does

Fantasy built on hope, twice over
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

One thread runs through both: romantic

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Romantic romance, and it commits to that
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