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Movies that feel like Sense and Sensibility (1995)

If you loved Sense and Sensibility, the closest films we have are Brokeback Mountain (2005), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and The Notebook (2004). All three share Sense and Sensibility's contemplative and romantic 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, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and Apple TV and others, checked against today's data.

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.

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Brokeback Mountain
2005 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· 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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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 Β· dir. Lasse HallstrΓΆm
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.7romance Β· drama

Widow is the engine of both

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 Notebook
2004 Β· dir. Nick Cassavetes
πŸ… 55%β˜… 7.8romance Β· drama

Both built around secret love

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Titanic
1997 Β· dir. James Cameron
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

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 fiancΓ©. 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 deathβ€”on its first and last voyageβ€”on April 15, 1912.

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Pride & Prejudice
2005 Β· dir. Joe Wright
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Period drama sits at the heart of each

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 Remains of the Day
1993 Β· dir. James Ivory
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

The same city underneath both: London

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. 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 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance

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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Before Sunrise
1995 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

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Happy Together
1997 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Both trade on romance more than on being drama

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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In the Mood for Love
2000 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

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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Slumdog Millionaire
2008 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

Tender romance 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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Romeo + Juliet
1996 Β· dir. Baz Luhrmann
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.7drama Β· romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

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