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Movies that feel like Talk to Her (2002)

If you loved Talk to Her, the closest films we have are Volver (2006), Bad Education (2004) and Julieta (2016). All three share Talk to Her's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 4 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Pedro Almodóvarcontemplativeromantictenderwarm

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Volver
2006 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 91%7.6comedy · drama · romance

Both are Pedro Almodóvar's work, and they rhyme

The difference: None of the warmth Talk to Her is built on

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%7.4drama · crime

Pedro Almodóvar working the same nerve twice

The difference: Missing the romance of Talk to Her

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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Julieta
2016 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 84%7.1drama · romance

Both rooted in Madrid

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

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I Want You
2012 · dir. Fernando González Molina
6.7drama · romance

One thread runs through both: friendship

After two years away, Hache returns to Barcelona seeking a fresh start. Falling for Gin while facing unresolved feelings for Babi, he must confront love, loss, and who he's becoming.

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Enchanted April
1991 · dir. Mike Newell
🍅 85%7.3romance · drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 94%7.5comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: pregnancy

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than Talk to Her does

After being dumped by her lover, Pepa finds her life and the lives of those around her spiraling out of control in a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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Three Steps Above Heaven
2010 · dir. Fernando González Molina
6.8romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

Babi, a sheltered upper-class girl, and Hache, a reckless rebel obsessed with illegal motorcycle races, fall into a forbidden love that pulls them deeper into passion and risk.

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Italian for Beginners
2000 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 87%7comedy · drama · romance

The same mix in both: tenderness, then warmth

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

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Jules and Jim
1962 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 94%7.7drama · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

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Y Tu Mamá También
2001 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 90%7.7drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
2011 · dir. Zoya Akhtar
🍅 89%8.2drama · comedy · romance

Tender drama in both cases

Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?

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

Romance 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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