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Movies that feel like Same Time, Next Year (1978)
A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are happily married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
If you loved Same Time, Next Year, the closest films we have are Late Marriage (2001), Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980) and Strictly Ballroom (1992). All three share Same Time, Next Year's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Enchanted April (1991).
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If Same Time, Next Year hit the spot, these will too
The same mix in both: stillness, then romance
Comedy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases
Drama built on wit, twice over
Playful romance, and it commits to that
Both keep coming back to the same thing: extramarital affair
Takes it somewhere less witty than Same Time, Next Year does
Contemplative comedy in both cases
Sits closer to fantasy than Same Time, Next Year does
Both lean on romance more than on drama
Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft
One thread runs through both: chance meeting
Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases
Both are built on the same subject: chance meeting
Comedy built on wit, twice over
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