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Movies that feel like Blue Valentine (2010)

If you loved Blue Valentine, the closest films we have are 45 Years (2015), One Day (2011) and Up in the Air (2009). All three share Blue Valentine's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel and AMC+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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If Blue Valentine hit the spot, these will too

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45 Years
2015 Β· dir. Andrew Haigh
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

Dancing and pregnancy, at the center of both

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

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One Day
2011 Β· dir. Lone Scherfig
πŸ… 36%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: love

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

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Up in the Air
2009 Β· dir. Jason Reitman
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

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Remember Me
2010 Β· dir. Allen Coulter
πŸ… 26%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

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Certified Copy
2010 Β· dir. Abbas Kiarostami
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

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The Fault in Our Stars
2014 Β· dir. Josh Boone
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama

Drama with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008 Β· dir. Woody Allen
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

Both trade on tenderness more than on being romance

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

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Slumdog Millionaire
2008 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

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Carol
2015 Β· dir. Todd Haynes
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.3romance Β· drama

Romance built on romance, twice over

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

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Weekend
2011 Β· dir. Andrew Haigh
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance

Both run tender where it counts

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

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The Notebook
2004 Β· dir. Nick Cassavetes
πŸ… 55%β˜… 7.8romance Β· drama

Both are drama through and through

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

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Brokeback Mountain
2005 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Romance approached the same way

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

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