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Movies that feel like The Graduate (1967)

If you loved The Graduate, the closest films we have are A Summer's Tale (1996), Gregory's Girl (1980) and The Quiet Man (1952). All three share The Graduate's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Mike Nicholscontemplativeromantictenderwittyplayfulwistful
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A Summer's Tale
1996 Β· dir. Γ‰ric Rohmer
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Both are working the same pair: growing up, graduate

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1990s show

Awaiting his girlfriend LΓ©na’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends β€” and flirts heavily with β€” two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie SolΓ¨ne, making for a rather complicated situation when LΓ©na finally arrives.

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Gregory's Girl
1980 Β· dir. Bill Forsyth
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as The Graduate

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

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The Quiet Man
1952 Β· dir. John Ford
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.7romance Β· comedy Β· drama

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

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Show Me Love
1998 Β· dir. Lukas Moodysson
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Both land tenderness and wit at once

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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Clueless
1995 Β· dir. Amy Heckerling
β˜… 6.9comedy Β· romance

One thread runs through both: wedding

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 Β· dir. Blake Edwards
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Common ground: older woman younger man relationship

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

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Punch-Drunk Love
2002 Β· dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.3romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Los Angeles shapes both of them

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

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The Spectacular Now
2013 Β· dir. James Ponsoldt
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7comedy Β· drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: play, then wistfulness

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

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Two for the Road
1967 Β· dir. Stanley Donen
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance Β· comedy

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

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Harold and Maude
1971 Β· dir. Hal Ashby
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.

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Cousins
2019 Β· dir. Mauro Carvalho
β˜… 6.3comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Comedy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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The Apartment
1960 Β· dir. Billy Wilder
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.3comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both lean on wit more than on drama

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

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