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Movies that feel like The Fountain (2006)

If you loved The Fountain, the closest films we have are The Wrestler (2008), A Royal Affair (2012) and Attraction (2017). All three share The Fountain's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 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.

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

πŸ… 52% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Darren Aronofskycontemplativeepiccerebralromantictender

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The Wrestler
2008 Β· dir. Darren Aronofsky
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

Darren Aronofsky directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

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A Royal Affair
2012 Β· dir. Nikolaj Arcel
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5drama Β· history Β· romance

Common ground in both: queen and religion

The difference: Not nearly as cerebral as The Fountain

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

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Attraction
2017 Β· dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
πŸ… 36%β˜… 5.6drama Β· romance Β· science fiction

Contemplative where it counts, epic underneath

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

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Bicentennial Man
1999 Β· dir. Chris Columbus
πŸ… 38%β˜… 6.9drama Β· romance Β· science fiction

Cerebral and romantic in the same breath

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

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Two Lovers
2008 Β· dir. James Gray
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: love of one's life

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

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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 Β· dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.5romance Β· history Β· drama

Tender drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into history than The Fountain does

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

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Veer-Zaara
2004 Β· dir. Yash Chopra
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love of one's life

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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2046
2004 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4drama Β· science fiction Β· romance

Science fiction with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

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Bajirao Mastani
2015 Β· dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.3history Β· romance Β· drama

Both lean on scale more than on romance

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

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Brooklyn
2015 Β· dir. John Crowley
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.5drama Β· history Β· romance

Romantic adventure in both cases

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

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The Wind Rises
2013 Β· dir. Hayao Miyazaki
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.8animation Β· drama Β· history

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

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Before Sunset
2004 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 94%β˜… 8.1drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.

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