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Movies that feel like My Dearest Assassin (2026)

If you loved My Dearest Assassin, the closest films we have are I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (2011), Asako I & II (2018) and Right Now, Wrong Then (2015). All three share My Dearest Assassin'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, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

Hunted for her rare blood type, a caged woman vows to fight alongside the assassin she loves to protect their future when an old enemy resurfaces.

8.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Taweewat Wanthakineticcontemplativeromantictender
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I Don't Want to Go Back Alone
2011 · dir. Daniel Ribeiro
8.2drama · romance

Both land stillness and romance at once

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as My Dearest Assassin

The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.

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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%7drama · romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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Right Now, Wrong Then
2015 · dir. Hong Sang-soo
🍅 92%7.1drama · romance

Contemplative romance in both cases

By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...

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The Souvenir
2019 · dir. Joanna Hogg
🍅 90%6.4drama · romance

Action built on romance, twice over

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

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Sidewalls
2011 · dir. Gustavo Taretto
🍅 70%7.5drama · romance

Tender drama, and it commits to that

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
2012 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 91%6.7drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Samar Anand, a London-based struggling musician falls in love with Meera Thappar. After a severe accident, a panicked Meera promises God to leave Samar if he lives. Heartbroken, Samar leaves for India to become a fearless bomb disposal expert in the army.

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Veer-Zaara
2004 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 93%7.8drama · romance

Romantic action, and it commits to that

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2000s show

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 · dir. Peter Flinth
6.6action · adventure · drama

Both lean on momentum more than on action

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than My Dearest Assassin does

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

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Medicine for Melancholy
2009 · dir. Barry Jenkins
🍅 85%6.6drama · romance

Another one that scratches it

Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a deeper connection.

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The Reader
2008 · dir. Stephen Daldry
🍅 63%7.6drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: cynical

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

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Dil Chahta Hai
2001 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
🍅 100%8.1drama · romance

Cut from the same romance cloth

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.

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With Every Heartbeat
2011 · dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining
6.8romance · drama

Drama approached the same way

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

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