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Movies that feel likeLittle Women (2019)

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

If you loved Little Women, the closest films we have are Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013), Call Me by Your Name (2017) and Devdas (2002). All three share Little Women'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 20th Century Girl (2022).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Greta Gerwigcontemplativeromantictenderwistful
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
🍅 88%★ 7.6romance · drama

A young woman discovers who she is through one formative, consuming bond

The difference: Raw and explicit where Little Women stays warm and literary

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

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Call Me by Your Name
2017 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 95%★ 7.8romance · dramaNetflix

A tender first love blooms slowly over one unhurried, sun-soaked season

The difference: One summer romance, not a sprawling portrait of four sisters growing up

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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Devdas
2002 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
★ 7.6drama · romance

Love and family expectation pull against each other across a formative era

The difference: A tragic courtesan romance, far more operatic and doomed

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

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A Walk to Remember
2002 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 30%★ 7.3drama · romance

A guarded heart opens slowly to someone who changes how they see life

The difference: A tragic teen romance with a ticking clock, not a sisters' saga

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

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The Way He Looks
2014 · dir. Daniel Ribeiro
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama · romance

New feelings quietly reshape a young person's sense of who they'll become

The difference: A blind teen's first love, not a multi-year portrait of sisterhood

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

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Past Lives
2023 · dir. Celine Song
🍅 95%★ 7.8drama · romanceRent or buy

New York City shapes both of them

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

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20th Century Girl
2022 · dir. Bang Woo-ri
🍅 86%★ 7.4romance · dramaNetflix

A young woman's own feelings sneak up on her while helping someone else's

The difference: A love-triangle teen romance, not a sprawling sisters' coming-of-age

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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All the Bright Places
2020 · dir. Brett Haley
🍅 67%★ 6.6romance · dramaNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

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CODA
2021 · dir. Sian Heder
🍅 94%★ 8drama · music · romanceApple TV+

A young woman weighs her own ambitions against the pull of family

The difference: One girl's music dream versus family duty, not four sisters' parallel paths

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

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Cinema Paradiso
1988 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 90%★ 8.5drama · romance

Common ground: growing up

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

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Y Tu Mamá También
2001 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 90%★ 7.7drama · romance

Both land stillness and romance at once

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

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The Garden of Words
2013 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
★ 7.4animation · drama · romance

Quiet, unhurried scenes let feelings develop without anyone rushing them

The difference: A fleeting rainy-season romance, not a multi-year family portrait

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

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