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Movies that feel like Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

If you loved Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the closest films we have are The Fault in Our Stars (2014), Carol (2015) and Five Feet Apart (2019). All three share Portrait of a Lady on Fire'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 Netflix, Disney Plus and Netflix Standard with Ads and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Céline Sciammacontemplativeromantictender
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The Fault in Our Stars
2014 · dir. Josh Boone
🍅 81%7.6romance · drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

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Carol
2015 · dir. Todd Haynes
🍅 94%7.3romance · drama

Both built around lesbian relationship

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

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Five Feet Apart
2019 · dir. Justin Baldoni
🍅 53%7.2romance · drama

Tender drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.

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

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

The same preoccupation in both: period drama

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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The Wrestler
2008 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 99%7.9drama · romance

Romantic drama in both cases

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

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Remember Me
2010 · dir. Allen Coulter
🍅 26%7.1drama · romance

Both keep circling back to melancholy

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

Both trade on tenderness more than on being romance

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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Weekend
2011 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 95%7.6drama · romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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45 Years
2015 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 96%7.1drama · romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

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

Both run tender where it counts

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1990s show

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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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 80%7.1drama · romance

Painter is the engine of both

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

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