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Movies that feel like Enchanted April (1991)

If you loved Enchanted April, the closest films we have are Jules and Jim (1962), The Age of Innocence (1993) and What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). All three share Enchanted April's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

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Jules and Jim
1962 Β· dir. FranΓ§ois Truffaut
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1960s show

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

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The Age of Innocence
1993 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Missing the warmth of Enchanted April

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 Β· dir. Lasse HallstrΓΆm
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.7romance Β· drama

Romantic drama in both cases

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

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Sense and Sensibility
1995 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

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Titanic
1997 Β· dir. James Cameron
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancΓ©. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its deathβ€”on its first and last voyageβ€”on April 15, 1912.

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The Remains of the Day
1993 Β· dir. James Ivory
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

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The Notebook
2004 Β· dir. Nick Cassavetes
πŸ… 55%β˜… 7.8romance Β· drama

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

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Romeo + Juliet
1996 Β· dir. Baz Luhrmann
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.7drama Β· romance

Stillness is the shared currency

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

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Before Sunrise
1995 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1drama Β· romance

Romance approached the same way

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

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Pride & Prejudice
2005 Β· dir. Joe Wright
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Cut from the same drama cloth

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

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Happy Together
1997 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Both are romance through and through

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.

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Carol
2015 Β· dir. Todd Haynes
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.3romance Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: holiday

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

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