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Movies that feel likeJules and Jim (1962)

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.

If you loved Jules and Jim, the closest films we have are The Woman Next Door (1981), Contempt (1963) and Enchanted April (1991). All three share Jules and Jim's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Earrings of Madame de... (1953).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. François Truffautcontemplativeromantictenderwarm
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The Woman Next Door
1981 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 85%★ 7.2drama · romance

François Truffaut directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Easier on the warmth than Jules and Jim

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

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Contempt
1963 · dir. Jean-Luc Godard
🍅 92%★ 7.4drama · romance

Two things both keep coming back to: jealousy and love triangle

Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

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

Common ground in both: marriage and love

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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Journey to Italy
1954 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 96%★ 7.2drama · romanceMax

One thread runs through both: prostitute

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

The same preoccupation in both: 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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I Want You
2012 · dir. Fernando González Molina
★ 6.7drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

After two years away, Hache returns to Barcelona seeking a fresh start. Falling for Gin while facing unresolved feelings for Babi, he must confront love, loss, and who he's becoming.

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The Silence
1963 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 85%★ 7.7drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

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

Common ground: black and white

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

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

Both are built on the same subject: 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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Last Tango in Paris
1972 · dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
🍅 81%★ 6.8drama · romance

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

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