
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.
If Portrait of a Lady on Fire hit the spot, these will too

Both land stillness and romance at once

Both built around lesbian relationship

Tender drama, and it commits to that
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: period drama

Romantic drama in both cases

Both keep circling back to melancholy

Both trade on tenderness more than on being romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Romance built on romance, twice over

Both run tender where it counts
The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1990s show

Painter is the engine of both
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