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Movies that feel like Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

If you loved Only Lovers Left Alive, the closest films we have are The Age of Adaline (2015), The Shape of Water (2017) and About Time (2013). All three share Only Lovers Left Alive's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels, Howdy Amazon Channel and HBO Max Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 86% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jim Jarmuschcontemplativeromantictenderdreamlike

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

Immortality runs into love in each of them

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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The Shape of Water
2017 Β· dir. Guillermo del Toro
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.3drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

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About Time
2013 Β· dir. Richard Curtis
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance Β· fantasy

Tender and dreamlike in the same breath

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 72%β˜… 7.8drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

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Twilight
2008 Β· dir. Catherine Hardwicke
πŸ… 48%β˜… 5.4fantasy Β· drama Β· romance

Both built around vampire

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.

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πŸ… 49%β˜… 5.6fantasy Β· drama Β· romance

Vampire is the engine of both

After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.

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Meet Joe Black
1998 Β· dir. Martin Brest
πŸ… 48%β˜… 7.2fantasy Β· drama Β· romance

Romantic romance in both cases

Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan?

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Wings of Desire
1987 Β· dir. Wim Wenders
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.9drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Both keep circling back to immortality

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds β€” with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk β€” that it might be possible for him to take human form.

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Revolutionary Road
2008 Β· dir. Sam Mendes
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romance

Both trade on tenderness more than on being fantasy

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

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Before Midnight
2013 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.9romance Β· drama

Dreamlike drama, and it commits to that

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

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Hadestown: The Musical
2026 Β· dir. Brett Sullivan
β˜… 7.6drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice is intertwined with the complex relationship of Hades and Persephone. Eurydice, struggling with poverty, is lured to the industrial underworld of Hadestown by Hades, while Orpheus, a struggling musician, ventures down below to bring her back. (Filmed live at the Lyric Theatre, London, featuring the core five original Broadway cast members.)

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
2010 Β· dir. David Slade
πŸ… 46%β˜… 5.1adventure Β· fantasy Β· drama

Both trade on romance more than on being fantasy

The difference: Leans adventure where Only Lovers Left Alive does not

Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.

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