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Movies that feel likeBlue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

If you loved Blue Is the Warmest Color, the closest films we have are Call Me by Your Name (2017), A Walk to Remember (2002) and Little Women (2019). All three share Blue Is the Warmest Color's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Devdas (2002).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Abdellatif Kechicheromantictendercontemplativewistful
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Call Me by Your Name
2017 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 95%★ 7.8romance · dramaNetflix

A first love so consuming it rewires how you see yourself

The difference: A gentler summer romance — the heartbreak lands softer here

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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A Walk to Remember
2002 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 30%★ 7.3drama · romance

First love reshaping who someone is still becoming

The difference: A gentler teen romance — tragedy arrives, not raw desire

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

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Little Women
2019 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 95%★ 7.8drama · romanceHulu

Growing up rendered as its own kind of love story

The difference: Family bonds carry it, not the ache of a single romance

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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The Way He Looks
2014 · dir. Daniel Ribeiro
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama · romance

Wanting someone before you have words for what you want

The difference: A softer, more innocent register — less raw, less explicit

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

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Devdas
2002 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
★ 7.6drama · romance

Longing so total it consumes everything else in the frame

The difference: Old-world tragedy and music, not a modern coming-of-age ache

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

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The Garden of Words
2013 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
★ 7.4animation · drama · romance

Two people circling each other slowly, in no hurry to speak plainly

The difference: A hushed, animated miniature — far less physical, far less raw

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

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Cinema Paradiso
1988 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 90%★ 8.5drama · romance

Tenderness that outlasts the specific story carrying it

The difference: A love letter to childhood and film, not to first romance

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

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20th Century Girl
2022 · dir. Bang Woo-ri
🍅 86%★ 7.4romance · dramaNetflix

First love recalled with the specific ache of looking back

The difference: Played sweeter and lighter — a crush more than a consuming love

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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All the Bright Places
2020 · dir. Brett Haley
🍅 67%★ 6.6romance · dramaNetflix

Two people finding each other while still figuring out who they are

The difference: Grief and mental health drive this one more than desire does

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

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Y Tu Mamá También
2001 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 90%★ 7.7drama · romance

Common ground: growing up

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

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Past Lives
2023 · dir. Celine Song
🍅 95%★ 7.8drama · romanceRent or buy

Romantic and tender in the same breath

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

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5 Centimeters per Second
2007 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
★ 7.4animation · romance · dramaMax

A relationship studied slowly enough to feel every shift in it

The difference: Distance and drift replace the heat — this one aches quietly instead

Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

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