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Only Yesterday (1991)

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

🍅 100%7.6dir. Isao Takahatawhimsicalcontemplativeromantictender
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Your Name.
2016 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
🍅 98%8.4animation · romance · drama

both about school · shares that whimsical feel

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

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Titanic
1997 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 88%8drama · romance

shares that contemplative feel

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 90%7.7romance · drama

shares that romantic feel

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.

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A Silent Voice: The Movie
2016 · dir. Naoko Yamada
8.2animation · drama · romance

both about based on manga · shares that tender feel

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

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Before Sunrise
1995 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 100%8.1drama · romance

same contemplative energy

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

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Brokeback Mountain
2005 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 88%7.7drama · romance

both about countryside · same romantic energy

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

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

same tender energy

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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Romeo + Juliet
1996 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 75%6.7drama · romance

just as contemplative

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

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Pride & Prejudice
2005 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 87%7.8drama · romance

just as romantic

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

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Slumdog Millionaire
2008 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 92%8drama · romance

just as tender

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

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Ocean Waves
1993 · dir. Tomomi Mochizuki
🍅 89%6.6animation · drama · romance

both about anime · same whimsical energy

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...

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Before Sunset
2004 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 94%8.1drama · romance

kindred drama spirit

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.

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