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Movies that feel like Never Look Away (2018)

If you loved Never Look Away, the closest films we have are Bajirao Mastani (2015), Jodhaa Akbar (2008) and A Royal Affair (2012). All three share Never Look Away's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

πŸ… 77% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarckcontemplativeromantictenderepic

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Bajirao Mastani
2015 Β· dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.3history Β· romance Β· drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 Β· dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.5romance Β· history Β· drama

Tender where it counts, epic underneath

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

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A Royal Affair
2012 Β· dir. Nikolaj Arcel
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5drama Β· history Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

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The Wind Rises
2013 Β· dir. Hayao Miyazaki
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.8animation Β· drama Β· history

Both keep coming back to the same thing: world war ii

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Never Look Away does

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

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The Reader
2008 Β· dir. Stephen Daldry
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: germany

The difference: Missing the scale of Never Look Away

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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Brooklyn
2015 Β· dir. John Crowley
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.5drama Β· history Β· romance

Both lean on romance more than on romance

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

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Asako I & II
2018 Β· dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

History built on tenderness, twice over

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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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019 Β· dir. CΓ©line Sciamma
πŸ… 98%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: painter

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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Right Now, Wrong Then
2015 Β· dir. Hong Sang-soo
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

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

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

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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45 Years
2015 Β· dir. Andrew Haigh
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

Tender history, and it commits to that

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

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

The same drama instincts

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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