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Movies that feel like Eat Pray Love (2010)

If you loved Eat Pray Love, the closest films we have are One Day (2011), Journey to Italy (1954) and Love (2015). All three share Eat Pray Love'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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

πŸ… 34% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Ryan Murphycontemplativeromantictender
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One Day
2011 Β· dir. Lone Scherfig
πŸ… 36%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

The same two preoccupations: love, and divorce

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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Journey to Italy
1954 Β· dir. Roberto Rossellini
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romance

Two things both keep coming back to: italy and travel

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

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Love
2015 Β· dir. Gaspar NoΓ©
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.1drama Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: love

Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.

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The Longest Ride
2015 Β· dir. George Tillman Jr.
πŸ… 31%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

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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The Best of Me
2014 Β· dir. Michael Hoffman
πŸ… 12%β˜… 6.7drama Β· romance

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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Veer-Zaara
2004 Β· dir. Yash Chopra
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Common ground: india

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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After We Fell
2021 Β· dir. Castille Landon
πŸ… 9%β˜… 4.8drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin, who is furious when he discovers the massive secret that she's been keeping. Before Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes because of revelations about her family.

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Water for Elephants
2011 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.9drama Β· romance

Both lean on romance more than on drama

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

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Burlesque
2010 Β· dir. Steve Antin
πŸ… 37%β˜… 6.4drama Β· romance

Tender romance in both cases

Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-majestic theater that houses an inspired musical revue. Vowing to perform there, she makes the leap from bar to stage, helping restore the club's former glory.

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Blue Valentine
2010 Β· dir. Derek Cianfrance
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romance

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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Amour
2012 Β· dir. Michael Haneke
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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After We Collided
2020 Β· dir. Roger Kumble
πŸ… 13%β˜… 5.1drama Β· romance

Both work the same tenderness

Tessa finds herself struggling with her complicated relationship with Hardin; she faces a dilemma that could change their lives forever.

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