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Movies that feel like Head-On (2004)

If you loved Head-On, the closest films we have are The Notebook (2004), Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Titanic (1997). All three share Head-On's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and Britbox Apple TV channel and others, checked against today's data.

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

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The Notebook
2004 · dir. Nick Cassavetes
🍅 55%7.8romance · drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

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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Pride & Prejudice
2005 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 87%7.8drama · romance

Tender drama in both cases

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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Titanic
1997 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 88%8drama · romance

Romance built on stillness, twice over

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 fiancé. 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 death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

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

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

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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Slumdog Millionaire
2008 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 92%8drama · romance

Both trade on tenderness more than on being romance

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

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Before Sunset
2004 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 94%8.1drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.

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The Wrestler
2008 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 99%7.9drama · romance

Both trade on romance more than on being romance

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

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In the Mood for Love
2000 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 92%8drama · romance

Both work the same tenderness

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

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Blue Valentine
2010 · dir. Derek Cianfrance
🍅 87%7.3drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: love

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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The Fault in Our Stars
2014 · dir. Josh Boone
🍅 81%7.6romance · drama

Drama approached the same way

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

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One Day
2011 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 36%7drama · romance

Both keep circling back to love

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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Up in the Air
2009 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 90%7.4drama · romance

Both are romance through and through

Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

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