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Movies that feel likeGod's Own Country (2017)

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

If you loved God's Own Country, the closest films we have are Certain Women (2016), Scenes from a Marriage (1974) and Julieta (2016). All three share God's Own Country's romantic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Right Now, Wrong Then (2015).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Francis Leeromantictendercontemplativelonely
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Certain Women
2016 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 92%★ 6.4dramaParamount+

The same two preoccupations: loneliness, and rural area

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tender than God's Own Country does

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

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Scenes from a Marriage
1974 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
★ 8.3drama · romanceMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: loneliness

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

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Julieta
2016 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 84%★ 7.1drama · romance

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

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Marty
1955 · dir. Delbert Mann
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama · romancePrime Video

Both land stillness and loneliness at once

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.

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Castaway on the Moon
2009 · dir. Lee Hae-jun
★ 7.9drama · comedy · romance

Common ground: isolation

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than God's Own Country does

Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River – only to find himself washed up on a small, mid-river island. He soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a new life as a castaway. His antics catch the attention of a young woman whose apartment overlooks the river. Her discovery changes both their lives.

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947 · dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
🍅 100%★ 7.8romance · fantasy · drama

Romantic romance in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than God's Own Country does

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

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Everything, Everything
2017 · dir. Stella Meghie
🍅 45%★ 6.3drama · romance

One thread runs through both: isolation

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.

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My Blueberry Nights
2007 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 45%★ 6.6drama · romancePrime VideoStarz

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%★ 7.1drama · romance

Romance built on stillness, twice over

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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Free Fall
2013 · dir. Stephan Lacant
★ 7.5drama · romance

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on tenderness more than on romance

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, 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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