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Movies that feel likeNever Let Me Go (2010)

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

If you loved Never Let Me Go, the closest films we have are The English Patient (1996), Battle for Sevastopol (2015) and La Jetée (1962). All three share Never Let Me Go'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 Advantageous (2015).

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The English Patient
1996 · dir. Anthony Minghella
🍅 86%★ 7.4drama · romance · warParamount+

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

The difference: Sits closer to war than Never Let Me Go does

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

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Battle for Sevastopol
2015 · dir. Sergey Mokritsky
★ 7war · drama · romancePrime Video

Both land tenderness and bleakness at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Never Let Me Go does

The story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

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La Jetée
1962 · dir. Chris Marker
🍅 90%★ 8.2drama · romance · science fiction

Cerebral drama in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

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Forgotten Love
2023 · dir. Michał Gazda
★ 7.5drama · romanceNetflix

Romance built on stillness, twice over

A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.

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Bicentennial Man
1999 · dir. Chris Columbus
🍅 38%★ 6.9drama · romance · science fictionPrime Video

Science fiction with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

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The Vow
2012 · dir. Michael Sucsy
🍅 30%★ 6.8drama · romanceStarz

Tender drama, and it commits to that

Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

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The Giver
2014 · dir. Phillip Noyce
🍅 34%★ 6.4drama · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

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The Space Between Us
2017 · dir. Peter Chelsom
🍅 17%★ 6.4romance · science fiction · dramaPrime Video

Both lean on ideas more than on romance

A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.

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Dear John
2010 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 28%★ 6.3drama · romance · warParamount+

Science fiction with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.

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The Fountain
2006 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 52%★ 7.1drama · adventure · science fiction

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

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Advantageous
2015 · dir. Jennifer Phang
🍅 87%★ 6science fiction · drama

One thread runs through both: dystopia

In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

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Mrs. Miniver
1942 · dir. William Wyler
🍅 93%★ 7.6drama · romance · war

The same preoccupation in both: england

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

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