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Movies that feel likeThe Great Gatsby (2013)

Nick Carraway arrives in New York in 1922, an era of loose morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious millionaire Gatsby and his bewitching cousin Daisy. Soon, Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super-rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. Bearing witness to this new world, Nick pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and unforgettable tragedy -- mirroring our own times and struggles.​

If you loved The Great Gatsby, the closest films we have are Phantom Thread (2017), The Theory of Everything (2014) and A Heart in Winter (1992). All three share The Great Gatsby's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Short Film About Love (1988).

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Phantom Thread
2017 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 91%★ 7.4drama · romanceNetflix

Obsessive love inside a beautiful, controlled world

The difference: Chilly and exacting — the opulence whispers, never roars

In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.

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The Theory of Everything
2014 · dir. James Marsh
🍅 81%★ 7.7drama · romance

A luminous love tested by what time takes away

The difference: A true story, gently told — no glitter, no decadence

Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.

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A Heart in Winter
1992 · dir. Claude Sautet
🍅 85%★ 7.5drama · romance

Longing for someone whose heart stays out of reach

The difference: Austere French chamber piece — restraint over spectacle

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

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Cruel Intentions
1999 · dir. Roger Kumble
🍅 55%★ 6.8drama · romanceNetflixHulu

The idle rich playing games with hearts as the stakes

The difference: Trashy teen scheming — seduction without the yearning

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.

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Mohabbatein
2000 · dir. Aditya Chopra
★ 7.1drama · romanceNetflix

Forbidden love versus an order built to contain it

The difference: A three-hour musical — sincerity dialed past irony

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

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Padmaavat
2018 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
🍅 55%★ 7.1drama · history · romanceNetflix

Obsession with an untouchable woman driving men to ruin

The difference: Historical epic scale — battle and honor eclipse romance

Rajputana, India, 13th century. The tyrannical usurper Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, becomes obsessed with Queen Padmavati, wife of King Ratan Singh of Mewar, and goes to great lengths to satisfy his greed for her.

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Breaking the Waves
1996 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 84%★ 7.8drama · romance

Devotion pushed to the point of self-destruction

The difference: Von Trier's cruelty — it will genuinely hurt to watch

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

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Australia
2008 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 53%★ 6.6adventure · romance · drama

Luhrmann going maximal — sweeping romance, gorgeous excess

The difference: Outback war epic — the intimacy drowns in the scale

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

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A Short Film About Love
1988 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 95%★ 8.1drama · romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...

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Lust, Caution
2007 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 73%★ 7.5action · drama · romance

Both land tenderness and obsession at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less hopeful than The Great Gatsby does

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

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Romeo + Juliet
1996 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 75%★ 6.7drama · romanceMaxHulu

Luhrmann's doomed lovers, drenched in the same dazzle

The difference: Teen tragedy in Shakespearean verse — dialogue takes effort

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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Revolutionary Road
2008 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 67%★ 7.3drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: infidelity

The difference: Easier on the obsession than The Great Gatsby

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

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