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Movies that feel like Free Fall (2013)

If you loved Free Fall, the closest films we have are Weekend (2011), I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (2011) and The Lunchbox (2013). All three share Free Fall's 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 Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.

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Weekend
2011 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 95%7.6drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: lgbt

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

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

The same preoccupation in both: 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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The Lunchbox
2013 · dir. Ritesh Batra
🍅 97%7.8drama · romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

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

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

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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Happy Together
1997 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%7.7drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Brokeback Mountain
2005 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 88%7.7drama · romance

Two things both keep coming back to: homophobia and in the closet

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

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45 Years
2015 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 96%7.1drama · romance

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

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Right Now, Wrong Then
2015 · dir. Hong Sang-soo
🍅 92%7.1drama · romance

Tender romance in both cases

By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...

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Certified Copy
2010 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%7.2drama · romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
2012 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 91%6.7drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

Samar Anand, a London-based struggling musician falls in love with Meera Thappar. After a severe accident, a panicked Meera promises God to leave Samar if he lives. Heartbroken, Samar leaves for India to become a fearless bomb disposal expert in the army.

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With Every Heartbeat
2011 · dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining
6.8romance · drama

The shared currency is tenderness

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%7drama · romance

The same drama instincts

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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