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Movies that feel like La Jetée (1962)

If you loved La Jetée, the closest films we have are Never Let Me Go (2010), Bicentennial Man (1999) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). All three share La Jetée's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Hulu, Philo and Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

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If La Jetée hit the spot, these will too

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Never Let Me Go
2010 · dir. Mark Romanek
🍅 71%7.1drama · romance · science fiction

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

The difference: A 2010s film, from a different era of filmmaking

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

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Bicentennial Man
1999 · dir. Chris Columbus
🍅 38%6.9drama · romance · science fiction

Tender and cerebral in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 · dir. Michel Gondry
🍅 93%8.3science fiction · drama · romance

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Not nearly as bleak as La Jetée

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

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Mr. Nobody
2009 · dir. Jaco Van Dormael
🍅 64%7.7science fiction · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: time travel

The difference: Missing the bleakness of La Jetée

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

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

Black and white is the engine of both

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

Both trade on romance more than on being romance

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

Tender science fiction 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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Her
2013 · dir. Spike Jonze
🍅 95%8romance · science fiction · drama

Drama with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

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The Giver
2014 · dir. Phillip Noyce
🍅 34%6.4drama · science fiction

Science fiction built on bleakness, twice over

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

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

Romance built on stillness, twice over

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

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

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

Both built around black and white

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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