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Movies that feel like Safe Haven (2013)

If you loved Safe Haven, the closest films we have are What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), The Next Three Days (2010) and Dear John (2010). All three share Safe Haven's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

🍅 13% Rotten Tomatoes6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lasse Hallströmromantictendertense
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 90%7.7romance · drama

The same hand behind both of them: Lasse Hallström

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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The Next Three Days
2010 · dir. Paul Haggis
🍅 50%7.3romance · drama · thriller

One thread runs through both: single father

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Safe Haven does

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.

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Dear John
2010 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 28%6.3drama · romance · war

Both are Lasse Hallström's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Safe Haven

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.

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Chocolat
2000 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 63%7.2comedy · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: small town life

The difference: None of the tension Safe Haven is built on

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

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The Best of Me
2014 · dir. Michael Hoffman
🍅 12%6.7drama · romance

Romantic and tender in the same breath

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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Adrift
2018 · dir. Baltasar Kormákur
🍅 70%6.6thriller · romance · adventure

Romance built on tension, twice over

Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope of rescue, Tami must now find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.

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Victoria
2015 · dir. Sebastian Schipper
🍅 82%7.6crime · thriller · romance

Thriller with a pulse of romance, in both cases

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

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My Fault
2023 · dir. Domingo González
6.1drama · romance · thriller

Tender romance in both cases

Noah must leave her city, boyfriend, and friends to move into William Leister's mansion, the flashy and wealthy husband of her mother Rafaela. As a proud and independent 17 year old, Noah resists living in a mansion surrounded by luxury. However, it is there where she meets Nick, her new stepbrother, and the clash of their strong personalities becomes evident from the very beginning.

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Match Point
2005 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 77%7.6drama · romance · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.

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Water for Elephants
2011 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 60%6.9drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

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The Handmaiden
2016 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 96%8.1thriller · drama · romance

Thriller built on tenderness, twice over

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

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The Longest Ride
2015 · dir. George Tillman Jr.
🍅 31%7drama · romance

Both are romance through and through

The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

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