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Movies that feel likeMelancholia (2011)

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

If you loved Melancholia, the closest films we have are Lilting (2014), Before I Fall (2017) and Rachel Getting Married (2008). All three share Melancholia's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006).

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Lilting
2014 Β· dir. Hong Khaou
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.2drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Melancholia

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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Before I Fall
2017 Β· dir. Ry Russo-Young
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.4drama Β· fantasyStarz

Both are built on the same subject: suicide

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Melancholia does

Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

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Rachel Getting Married
2008 Β· dir. Jonathan Demme
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.6dramaNetflix

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that

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

Science fiction with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Melancholia 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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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What Dreams May Come
1998 Β· dir. Vincent Ward
πŸ… 51%β˜… 7drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Dreamlike science fiction in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

After Chris Nielsen dies in a car accident, he is guided through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Albert. His new world is beautiful and can be whatever Chris imagines. Even his children are there. But, when his wife, Annie, commits suicide and is sent to hell, Chris ignores Albert's warnings and journeys there to save her. Upon arrival, Chris finds that rescuing Annie will be more difficult than he'd imagined.

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The Lovely Bones
2009 Β· dir. Peter Jackson
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.6fantasy Β· dramaParamount+Peacock

Drama built on romance, twice over

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

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City of Angels
1998 Β· dir. Brad Silberling
β˜… 6.7drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: suicide

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

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Mr. Nobody
2009 Β· dir. Jaco Van Dormael
πŸ… 64%β˜… 7.7science fiction Β· drama Β· romancePrime VideoHulu

The same preoccupation in both: surrealism

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 Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2006 Β· dir. Mamoru Hosoda
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.6fantasy Β· animation Β· dramaMax

Common ground: surrealism

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

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Upside Down
2012 Β· dir. Juan Diego Solanas
πŸ… 29%β˜… 6.3romance Β· science fiction Β· dramaPrime Video

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

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Contagion
2011 Β· dir. Steven Soderbergh
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.8drama Β· thriller Β· science fictionMax

Both run cerebral where it counts

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

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