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Movies that feel likeThe Age of Innocence (1993)

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.

If you loved The Age of Innocence, the closest films we have are Happy Together (1997), Two Lovers (2008) and The Earrings of Madame de... (1953). All three share The Age of Innocence'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).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Martin Scorsesecontemplativeromantictender
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Happy Together
1997 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · romanceMax

Both land stillness and romance at once

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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Two Lovers
2008 · dir. James Gray
🍅 81%★ 7drama · romance

New York City shapes both of them

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.

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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 97%★ 7.8drama · romanceMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: countess

The difference: 40 years apart, and the 1950s show

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

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

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

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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Sense and Sensibility
1995 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 97%★ 7.7drama · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

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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The Woman Next Door
1981 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 85%★ 7.2drama · romance

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

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Free Fall
2013 · dir. Stephan Lacant
★ 7.5drama · romance

Common ground: infidelity

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.

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

Tender romance in both cases

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

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, 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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Veer-Zaara
2004 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 94%★ 7.8drama · romanceNetflix

Romance with a pulse of 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

Both sit in the same tender register

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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Certified Copy
2010 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%★ 7.2drama · romanceRent or buy

Drama approached the same way

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

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