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Movies that feel likeSense and Sensibility (1995)

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

If you loved Sense and Sensibility, the closest films we have are Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and The Remains of the Day (1993). All three share Sense and Sensibility's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Veer-Zaara (2004).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ang Leecontemplativeromantictender
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Brokeback Mountain
2005 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 88%★ 7.7drama · romance

Ang Lee working the same nerve twice

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

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The Bridges of Madison County
1995 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 90%★ 7.6drama · romance

One thread runs through both: secret love

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

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The Remains of the Day
1993 · dir. James Ivory
🍅 96%★ 7.8drama · romancePrime Video

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

In interwar Britain, a rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a new housekeeper. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

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The Age of Innocence
1993 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 88%★ 7.2drama · romancePrime Video

Tender drama, and it commits to that

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

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Happy Together
1997 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · romanceMax

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 90%★ 7.7romance · drama

Both are built on the same subject: widow

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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Dil Chahta Hai
2001 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
🍅 100%★ 8.1drama · romanceNetflix

Drama with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.

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In the Mood for Love
2000 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 92%★ 8drama · romanceMax

The same preoccupation in both: secret love

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

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Veer-Zaara
2004 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 94%★ 7.8drama · romanceNetflix

Tender romance in both cases

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

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Head-On
2004 · dir. Fatih Akin
★ 7.9drama · romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

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My Name Is Khan
2010 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 88%★ 7.9drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

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Weekend
2011 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama · romanceRent or buy

Both run tender where it counts

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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