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Movies that feel like P.S. I Love You (2007)

If you loved P.S. I Love You, the closest films we have are Closer (2004), Atonement (2007) and Magnolia (1999). All three share P.S. I Love You's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Paramount Plus Premium and Metrograph and others, checked against today's data.

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

7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Richard LaGravenesecontemplativeromantictendermelancholy

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Closer
2004 · dir. Mike Nichols
🍅 67%7.1drama · romance

Common ground: grief

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

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Atonement
2007 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 83%7.8drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: letter

A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

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Magnolia
1999 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 82%8drama

The same preoccupation in both: mortality

The difference: Not nearly as tender as P.S. I Love You

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

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Life As We Know It
2010 · dir. Greg Berlanti
🍅 29%6.5comedy · romance · drama

One thread runs through both: grief

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than P.S. I Love You does

After a disastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have in common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling careers and social calendars, they'll have to find common ground while living under the same roof.

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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%7.2drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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Beautiful Creatures
2013 · dir. Richard LaGravenese
🍅 47%6.1fantasy · drama · romance

Richard LaGravenese directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than P.S. I Love You does

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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Top Gun
1986 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 57%7action · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mortality

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1980s show

For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

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Babel
2006 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 68%7.5drama

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

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Lilting
2014 · dir. Hong Khaou
🍅 82%7.2drama

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 35%7.3drama · romance · history

Tender drama in both cases

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Nobody Knows
2004 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 92%8drama

Romance built on romance, twice over

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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The Quiet Girl
2022 · dir. Colm Bairéad
🍅 97%7.7drama

The same preoccupation in both: ireland

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

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