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Movies that feel like Jules and Jim (1962)

If you loved Jules and Jim, the closest films we have are Enchanted April (1991), Marty (1955) and Journey to Italy (1954). All three share Jules and Jim'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 HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. François Truffautcontemplativeromantictenderwarm

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Enchanted April
1991 · dir. Mike Newell
🍅 85%7.3romance · drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1990s show

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

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Marty
1955 · dir. Delbert Mann
🍅 96%7.7drama · romance

Both circle marriage and love

The difference: Missing the warmth of Jules and Jim

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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Journey to Italy
1954 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 96%7.3drama · romance

Prostitute sits at the heart of each

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

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Splendor in the Grass
1961 · dir. Elia Kazan
🍅 75%7.7drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

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Days of Heaven
1978 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 93%7.7drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: love triangle

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

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A Man and a Woman
1966 · dir. Claude Lelouch
🍅 75%7.5drama · romance

Both built around love

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · dir. Jacques Demy
🍅 97%7.8drama · romance

Romance built on stillness, twice over

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 97%7.9drama · romance

Both keep circling back to black and white

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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Brief Encounter
1945 · dir. David Lean
🍅 95%8drama · romance

Marriage is the engine of both

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 · dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
🍅 100%8romance · drama

Romantic drama in both cases

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 100%7.8drama · romance

Tender romance, and it commits to that

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

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Casablanca
1943 · dir. Michael Curtiz
🍅 99%8.5drama · romance

Both built around love triangle

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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