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Movies that feel like L'Âge d'or (1930)

If you loved L'Âge d'or, the closest films we have are L'Atalante (1934), The Cameraman (1928) and I Know Where I'm Going! (1945). All three share L'Âge d'or's romantic and tender 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 Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luis Buñuelromantictenderwittyplayfulcontemplativedreamlike
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L'Atalante
1934 · dir. Jean Vigo
🍅 100%7.7comedy · drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: surrealism

Newly married couple Juliette and ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'Atalante along with the captain's first mate and a cabin boy.

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

Common ground: black and white

The difference: Missing the dream logic of L'Âge d'or

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 100%7.4romance · drama · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

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.

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

Both land romance and tenderness at once

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than L'Âge d'or does

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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Belle de Jour
1967 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 95%7.6drama · romance

Luis Buñuel directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

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Truly Madly Deeply
1991 · dir. Anthony Minghella
🍅 76%7.2fantasy · drama · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: love

Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be – hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928 · dir. Charles Reisner
🍅 96%7.8comedy · romance

Romantic romance in both cases

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.

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

One thread runs through both: love

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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The Palm Beach Story
1942 · dir. Preston Sturges
🍅 94%7.5comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

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Meet John Doe
1941 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 92%7.6drama · comedy · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

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The Circus
1928 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 97%8.1comedy · drama · romance

Romance built on wit, twice over

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

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