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Movies that feel like My Name Is Khan (2010)

If you loved My Name Is Khan, the closest films we have are A Short Film About Love (1988), Mohabbatein (2000) and Breaking the Waves (1996). All three share My Name Is Khan's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Karan Joharcontemplativeromantictenderhopeful

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A Short Film About Love
1988 Β· dir. Krzysztof KieΕ›lowski
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: hopeful

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1980s show

19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...

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Mohabbatein
2000 Β· dir. Aditya Chopra
β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hopeful

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

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Breaking the Waves
1996 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

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The Lunchbox
2013 Β· dir. Ritesh Batra
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Common ground: mumbai (bombay), india

The difference: Missing the hope of My Name Is Khan

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

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Departures
2008 Β· dir. Yojiro Takita
πŸ… 80%β˜… 8drama

Hopeful drama, and it commits to that

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

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The Theory of Everything
2014 Β· dir. James Marsh
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

One thread runs through both: a true story

Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.

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Hope
2013 Β· dir. Lee Joon-ik
β˜… 8.2drama

Both are built on the same subject: a true story

After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.

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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
1998 Β· dir. Karan Johar
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.5romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Karan Johar working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than My Name Is Khan does

Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him.

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Barfi!
2012 Β· dir. Anurag Basu
πŸ… 81%β˜… 8.1drama Β· romance Β· comedy

The same preoccupation in both: autism

The heartwarming tale of Barfi, a charming deaf-mute young man from 1970s Darjeeling, and two unalike women who can't help but fall for him.

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Weekend
2011 Β· dir. Andrew Haigh
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on romance

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

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I Don't Want to Go Back Alone
2011 Β· dir. Daniel Ribeiro
β˜… 8.2drama Β· romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Sidewalls
2011 Β· dir. Gustavo Taretto
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7.5drama Β· romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

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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