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Movies that feel like Never Let Me Go (2010)

If you loved Never Let Me Go, the closest films we have are La Jetée (1962), Bicentennial Man (1999) and The Giver (2014). All three share Never Let Me Go'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 Criterion Channel, FilmBox+ and MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mark Romanekcontemplativeromantictendercerebralbleak

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

The difference: A 1960s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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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Bicentennial Man
1999 · dir. Chris Columbus
🍅 38%6.9drama · romance · science fiction

Tender where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: None of the tenderness that defines Never Let Me Go

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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Mr. Nobody
2009 · dir. Jaco Van Dormael
🍅 64%7.7science fiction · drama · romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Missing the bleakness of Never Let Me Go

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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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 · dir. Michel Gondry
🍅 93%8.3science fiction · drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

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Dear John
2010 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 28%6.3drama · romance · war

Both trade on bleakness more than on being science fiction

The difference: Plays it as war more than Never Let Me Go does

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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Passengers
2016 · dir. Morten Tyldum
🍅 30%7drama · romance · science fiction

Tender drama in both cases

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

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Her
2013 · dir. Spike Jonze
🍅 95%8romance · science fiction · drama

Cerebral romance, and it commits to that

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

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

Contemplative science fiction, 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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Cloud Atlas
2012 · dir. Lana Wachowski
🍅 65%7.3drama · science fiction

Both keep circling back to dystopia

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

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One Day
2011 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 36%7drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of romance, in both cases

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

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The Notebook
2004 · dir. Nick Cassavetes
🍅 55%7.8romance · drama

Sadness is the engine of both

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

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