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Movies that feel like The Best Offer (2013)

If you loved The Best Offer, the closest films we have are Better Days (2019), 3-Iron (2004) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019). All three share The Best Offer's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Giuseppe Tornatorecontemplativeromantictendergritty
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Better Days
2019 · dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
🍅 97%7.6drama · crime · romance

Both land stillness and romance at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

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3-Iron
2004 · dir. Kim Ki-duk
🍅 87%7.9drama · romance · crime

The same mix in both: tenderness, then grit

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019 · dir. Céline Sciamma
🍅 98%8drama · romance

Common ground: painting

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as The Best Offer

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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Pierrot le Fou
1965 · dir. Jean-Luc Godard
🍅 88%7.4drama · romance · crime

Both are built on the same subject: painting

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

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

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Days of Being Wild
1990 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 91%7.4crime · drama · romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

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The Next Three Days
2010 · dir. Paul Haggis
🍅 50%7.3romance · drama · thriller

Romance built on romance, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Best Offer does

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.

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As Tears Go By
1988 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%7drama · crime · romance

Crime with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

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The Lunchbox
2013 · dir. Ritesh Batra
🍅 97%7.8drama · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

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Amour
2012 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 93%7.9drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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

Both lean on tenderness more than on crime

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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Weekend
2011 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 95%7.6drama · romance

Cut from the same drama cloth

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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Sidewalls
2011 · dir. Gustavo Taretto
🍅 70%7.5drama · romance

Both working the same romance territory

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

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