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Movies that feel like Brooklyn (2015)

If you loved Brooklyn, the closest films we have are A Royal Affair (2012), Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Never Look Away (2018). All three share Brooklyn's contemplative and epic 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, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Crowleycontemplativeepicromantictender

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

Common ground: love triangle

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

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

Contemplative and epic in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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

Both land romance and tenderness at once

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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

History built on scale, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Brooklyn does

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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Two Lovers
2008 · dir. James Gray
🍅 81%7drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: brooklyn, new york city

The difference: None of the scale Brooklyn is built on

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.

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45 Years
2015 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 96%7.1drama · romance

One thread runs through both: marriage

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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Blue Valentine
2010 · dir. Derek Cianfrance
🍅 87%7.3drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: marriage

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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The Longest Ride
2015 · dir. George Tillman Jr.
🍅 31%7drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

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Carol
2015 · dir. Todd Haynes
🍅 94%7.3romance · drama

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

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

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The Beach
2000 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 21%6.6drama · adventure · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: community

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

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Les Misérables
2012 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 70%7.5history · drama

One thread runs through both: love triangle

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

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