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Movies that feel like I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)

If you loved I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, the closest films we have are Five Feet Apart (2019), Midnight Sun (2018) and The Lunchbox (2013). All three share I Want to Eat Your Pancreas' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

8.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Shinichiro Ushijimacontemplativeromantictender

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Five Feet Apart
2019 · dir. Justin Baldoni
🍅 53%7.2romance · drama

Common ground in both: terminal illness and hospital

Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.

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Midnight Sun
2018 · dir. Scott Speer
🍅 21%6.6romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: terminal illness

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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The Lunchbox
2013 · dir. Ritesh Batra
🍅 97%7.8drama · romance

Both land stillness and romance at once

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

Drama built on tenderness, 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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Amour
2012 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 93%7.9drama · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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

Romantic animation in both cases

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

Tender 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

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Animation with a pulse of 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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Only Yesterday
1991 · dir. Isao Takahata
🍅 100%7.6animation · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: anime

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1990s show

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

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

Tender drama in both cases

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

Romance in the same key

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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