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Movies that feel likeOnly Lovers Left Alive (2013)

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

If you loved Only Lovers Left Alive, the closest films we have are A Ghost Story (2017), What Dreams May Come (1998) and The Age of Adaline (2015). All three share Only Lovers Left Alive'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 Blue Valentine (2010).

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If Only Lovers Left Alive hit the spot, these will too

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A Ghost Story
2017 Β· dir. David Lowery
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.8drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

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What Dreams May Come
1998 Β· dir. Vincent Ward
πŸ… 51%β˜… 7drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Both land tenderness and dream logic at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After Chris Nielsen dies in a car accident, he is guided through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Albert. His new world is beautiful and can be whatever Chris imagines. Even his children are there. But, when his wife, Annie, commits suicide and is sent to hell, Chris ignores Albert's warnings and journeys there to save her. Upon arrival, Chris finds that rescuing Annie will be more difficult than he'd imagined.

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The Age of Adaline
2015 Β· dir. Lee Toland Krieger
πŸ… 54%β˜… 7.2romance Β· fantasy Β· dramaMax

Common ground in both: immortality and love

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Only Lovers Left Alive

After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

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Blue Valentine
2010 Β· dir. Derek Cianfrance
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romancePrime VideoParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: love

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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The Time Traveler's Wife
2009 Β· dir. Robert Schwentke
πŸ… 38%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance Β· fantasyParamount+

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.

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Remember Me
2010 Β· dir. Allen Coulter
πŸ… 26%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romancePeacock

Romance with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

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City of Angels
1998 Β· dir. Brad Silberling
β˜… 6.7drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Romantic fantasy, and it commits to that

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

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Beautiful Creatures
2013 Β· dir. Richard LaGravenese
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.1fantasy Β· drama Β· romance

Tender drama in both cases

Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.

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Sapphire Blue
2014 Β· dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
β˜… 6.2fantasy Β· romance Β· drama

Both lean on dream logic more than on romance

Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.

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P.S. I Love You
2007 Β· dir. Richard LaGravenese
β˜… 7drama Β· romance

Fantasy with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

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Beastly
2011 Β· dir. Daniel Barnz
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.5romance Β· fantasy Β· dramaParamount+

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love.

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Midnight Sun
2018 Β· dir. Scott Speer
πŸ… 21%β˜… 6.6romance Β· dramaPrime VideoHulu

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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