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Movies that feel like The Bodyguard (1992)

If you loved The Bodyguard, the closest films we have are What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Rachel Getting Married (2008) and The Age of Innocence (1993). All three share The Bodyguard's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.

πŸ… 38% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Mick Jacksonkineticcontemplativeromantictender
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 Β· dir. Lasse HallstrΓΆm
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.7romance Β· drama

One thread runs through both: brothers and sisters

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Rachel Getting Married
2008 Β· dir. Jonathan Demme
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.6drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: brothers and sisters

The difference: None of the momentum The Bodyguard is built on

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

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The Age of Innocence
1993 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

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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A Knight's Tale
2001 Β· dir. Brian Helgeland
πŸ… 60%β˜… 7adventure Β· drama Β· romance

Both land momentum and tenderness at once

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than The Bodyguard does

William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. Posing as a knight himself, William won't stop until he's crowned tournament championβ€”assuming matters of the heart don't get in the way.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Midnight Sun
2018 Β· dir. Scott Speer
πŸ… 21%β˜… 6.6romance Β· drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: singer

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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Sense and Sensibility
1995 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

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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Through the Olive Trees
1995 Β· dir. Abbas Kiarostami
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on action

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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Only Yesterday
1991 Β· dir. Isao Takahata
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6animation Β· drama Β· romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 Β· dir. Peter Flinth
β˜… 6.6action Β· adventure Β· drama

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

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

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

Tender drama, and it commits to that

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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