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Movies that feel like Legends of the Fall (1994)

If you loved Legends of the Fall, the closest films we have are Days of Being Wild (1990), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and The Remains of the Day (1993). All three share Legends of the Fall'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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Edward Zwickcontemplativegrittyromantictenderbleak

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Days of Being Wild
1990 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 91%7.4crime · drama · romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

The difference: Not nearly as bleak as Legends of the Fall

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

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Rachel Getting Married
2008 · dir. Jonathan Demme
🍅 85%6.6drama · romance

The same two preoccupations: brothers and sisters, and interracial marriage

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

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The Remains of the Day
1993 · dir. James Ivory
🍅 96%7.8drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: loyalty

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

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Dear John
2010 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 28%6.3drama · romance · war

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.

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Battle for Sevastopol
2015 · dir. Sergey Mokritsky
7war · drama · romance

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

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To Live
1994 · dir. Zhang Yimou
🍅 87%8.3drama · romance · war

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.

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Better Days
2019 · dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
🍅 97%7.6drama · crime · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: affectation

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Legends of the Fall does

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

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As Tears Go By
1988 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%7drama · crime · romance

Gritty western in both cases

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

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The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 · dir. William Wyler
🍅 97%8.1drama · romance · war

Common ground: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 90%7.7romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: brothers and sisters

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

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3-Iron
2004 · dir. Kim Ki-duk
🍅 87%7.9drama · romance · crime

Both lean on romance more than on war

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

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The Age of Innocence
1993 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 88%7.2drama · romance

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

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