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Movies that feel likeThe Fault in Our Stars (2014)

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If you loved The Fault in Our Stars, the closest films we have are Sidewalls (2011), Brokeback Mountain (2005) and Carol (2015). All three share The Fault in Our Stars' romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Weekend (2011).

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Josh Booneromantictendercontemplative
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Sidewalls
2011 · dir. Gustavo Taretto
🍅 70%★ 7.5drama · romance

Lonely souls circling a connection the city keeps delaying

The difference: Argentine indie quirk — adults, essays and architecture

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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Brokeback Mountain
2005 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 88%★ 7.7drama · romance

A love the world gives no room to survive

The difference: Slow-burning adult tragedy — decades of silence, no wit

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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Carol
2015 · dir. Todd Haynes
🍅 94%★ 7.3romance · dramaPrime Video

A forbidden love conducted in glances and stolen time

The difference: Exquisite 50s restraint — cool where TFIOS weeps openly

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

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The Longest Ride
2015 · dir. George Tillman Jr.
🍅 31%★ 7drama · romance

Young love shadowed by risk and hard choices

The difference: Rodeo romance formula — stakes feel manufactured

The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 80%★ 7.1drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: romantic

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

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Flipped
2010 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 54%★ 7.7romance · drama

First love told with sincerity and a light touch

The difference: Middle-school innocence — no mortality on the line

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

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The Best of Me
2014 · dir. Michael Hoffman
🍅 12%★ 6.7drama · romance

Star-crossed love that time and tragedy keep testing

The difference: Sparks-brand melodrama — soapier, far less sharp

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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

A hidden love upending a carefully planned life

The difference: Stark German drama — repression, not banter

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

Both land romance and tenderness at once

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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Weekend
2011 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama · romanceRent or buy

Romance built on stillness, twice over

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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The Reader
2008 · dir. Stephen Daldry
🍅 63%★ 7.6drama · romance

A formative love that marks a life forever

The difference: Heavy Holocaust-guilt drama — not a teen story at all

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

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One Day
2011 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 36%★ 7drama · romance

A romance that knows time is the enemy

The difference: Adult wistfulness across decades — slower, sadder build

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

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