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Movies that feel like Cousins (2019)

If you loved Cousins, the closest films we have are Show Me Love (1998), Love, Simon (2018) and A Summer's Tale (1996). All three share Cousins' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 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.

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mauro Carvalhowittyplayfulromantictendercontemplativewistful
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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%7.5comedy · romance · drama

Common ground in both: coming out and small town life

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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Love, Simon
2018 · dir. Greg Berlanti
🍅 92%7.5comedy · drama · romance

The same two preoccupations: growing up, and lgbt

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.

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A Summer's Tale
1996 · dir. Éric Rohmer
🍅 98%7.6romance · drama · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: growing up

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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Beginners
2011 · dir. Mike Mills
🍅 86%7.2drama · romance · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: coming out

The difference: None of the wistfulness Cousins is built on

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.

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

One thread runs through both: gay theme

The difference: Missing the wit of Cousins

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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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%7comedy · drama · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

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Gregory's Girl
1980 · dir. Bill Forsyth
🍅 95%7.1comedy · romance

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 · dir. Claire Denis
🍅 87%6comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

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I Don't Want to Go Back Alone
2011 · dir. Daniel Ribeiro
8.2drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: lgbt

The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.

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Toscana
2022 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 83%5.7comedy · romance · drama

Romance with a pulse of wit, in both cases

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

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Love Is All You Need
2012 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 75%6.5comedy · romance · drama

Both lean on play more than on drama

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

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Take This Waltz
2011 · dir. Sarah Polley
🍅 79%6.5drama · comedy · romance

Romantic comedy in both cases

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

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