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Movies that feel likeMe Before You (2016)

Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up β€” that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.

If you loved Me Before You, the closest films we have are Blue Valentine (2010), Five Feet Apart (2019) and Remember Me (2010). All three share Me Before You'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 Only Lovers Left Alive (2013).

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If Me Before You hit the spot, these will too

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Blue Valentine
2010 Β· dir. Derek Cianfrance
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romancePrime VideoParamount+

Love and depression sharing the same rooms, tenderly observed

The difference: Raw and unsparing β€” a marriage failing with no uplift coming

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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Five Feet Apart
2019 Β· dir. Justin Baldoni
πŸ… 53%β˜… 7.2romance Β· dramaRent or buy

A romance shaped entirely by the limits illness sets on it

The difference: Teen hospital drama, lighter and more conventional in its beats

Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control β€” all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.

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Remember Me
2010 Β· dir. Allen Coulter
πŸ… 26%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romancePeacock

Young love growing up inside grief that neither can outrun

The difference: New York melancholy and family fracture, less warmth to hold

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

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P.S. I Love You
2007 Β· dir. Richard LaGravenese
β˜… 7drama Β· romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cozy than Me Before You does

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

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Closer
2004 Β· dir. Mike Nichols
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

Tender and melancholy in the same breath

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

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All the Bright Places
2020 Β· dir. Brett Haley
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6.6romance Β· dramaNetflix

Common ground in both: depression and love

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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Midnight Sun
2018 Β· dir. Scott Speer
πŸ… 21%β˜… 6.6romance Β· dramaPrime VideoHulu

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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Your Fault
2024 Β· dir. Domingo GonzΓ‘lez
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.3drama Β· romancePrime Video

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

The love between Noah and Nick seems unwavering despite their parents' attempts to separate them. But his job and her entry into college open up their lives to new relationships that will shake the foundations of both their relationship and the Leister family itself.

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Romeo + Juliet
1996 Β· dir. Baz Luhrmann
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.7drama Β· romanceMaxHulu

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

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Collateral Beauty
2016 Β· dir. David Frankel
πŸ… 14%β˜… 6.8drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

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Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 Β· dir. Jim Jarmusch
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance Β· fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Me Before You does

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

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A Ghost Story
2017 Β· dir. David Lowery
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.8drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

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