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Movies that feel like Devdas (2002)

If you loved Devdas, the closest films we have are Bajirao Mastani (2015), Sidewalls (2011) and A Summer's Tale (1996). All three share Devdas' contemplative and romantic 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.

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.

7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansalicontemplativeromantictenderwistful

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

The same hand behind both of them: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

The difference: None of the wistfulness Devdas is built on

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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Sidewalls
2011 · dir. Gustavo Taretto
🍅 70%7.5drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: sentimental

The difference: Not nearly as wistful as Devdas

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Devdas does

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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Veer-Zaara
2004 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 93%7.8drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: musical

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

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A Brighter Summer Day
1991 · dir. Edward Yang
🍅 100%8.2crime · drama · romance

Both land tenderness and wistfulness at once

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Devdas does

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

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2046
2004 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 87%7.4drama · science fiction · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%7.5comedy · romance · drama

Romantic romance in both cases

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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The Virgin Suicides
2000 · dir. Sofia Coppola
🍅 80%7.2drama · romance

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

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

Wistful romance, and it commits to that

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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Padmaavat
2018 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
🍅 53%7.1drama · history · romance

Both are Sanjay Leela Bhansali's work, and they rhyme

Rajputana, India, 13th century. The tyrannical usurper Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, becomes obsessed with Queen Padmavati, wife of King Ratan Singh of Mewar, and goes to great lengths to satisfy his greed for her.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Dil Chahta Hai
2001 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
🍅 100%8.1drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on romance

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.

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