
Movies that feel like Challengers (2024)
If you loved Challengers, the closest films we have are I Want You (2012), Three Steps Above Heaven (2010) and Past Lives (2023). All three share Challengers' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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 Challengers hit the spot, these will too

Both land stillness and romance at once

Tender where it counts, warm underneath


Both are working the same pair: infidelity, love triangle
The difference: Missing the warmth of Challengers

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love triangle

The same preoccupation in both: interracial marriage
The difference: Not nearly as warm as Challengers

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Both lean on romance more than on romance

Both are built on the same subject: husband wife relationship

Drama built on tenderness, twice over
The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Challengers does


Contemplative romance, and it commits to that
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one
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