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Movies that feel likeI Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

If you loved I Know Where I'm Going!, the closest films we have are The Red Shoes (1948), Holiday (1938) and Limelight (1952). All three share I Know Where I'm Going!'s romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Late Marriage (2001).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Powellromantictendercontemplativewittyplayful
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The Red Shoes
1948 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 98%★ 8.1drama · romanceMax

The same hand behind both of them: Michael Powell

The difference: Trades the wit of I Know Where I'm Going! for an angle of its own

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

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Holiday
1938 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%★ 7.7comedy · romance · drama

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

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Limelight
1952 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 88%★ 8romance · drama · comedyMax

Common ground: black and white

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

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A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 97%★ 8romance · fantasy · drama

Michael Powell directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Easier on the wit than I Know Where I'm Going!

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

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Two for the Road
1967 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 82%★ 7.3drama · romance · comedy

Contemplative where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1960s show

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

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The Cameraman
1928 · dir. Edward Sedgwick
🍅 100%★ 8comedy · romance · drama

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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The Shop Around the Corner
1940 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 99%★ 8comedy · drama · romance

Playful romance, and it commits to that

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

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Sissi
1955 · dir. Ernst Marischka
★ 7comedy · drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

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Same Time, Next Year
1978 · dir. Robert Mulligan
🍅 40%★ 7.2comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on comedy

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are happily married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.

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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 97%★ 7.8drama · romanceMax

Contemplative romance in both cases

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

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Late Marriage
2001 · dir. Dover Koshashvili
🍅 88%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romanceRent or buy

Drama built on wit, twice over

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.

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Summer with Monika
1953 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 7.5drama · romance

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

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