
Movies that feel likeThe Great Gatsby (2013)
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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If The Great Gatsby hit the spot, these will too

Obsessive love inside a beautiful, controlled world
The difference: Chilly and exacting — the opulence whispers, never roars

A luminous love tested by what time takes away
The difference: A true story, gently told — no glitter, no decadence

Longing for someone whose heart stays out of reach
The difference: Austere French chamber piece — restraint over spectacle

The idle rich playing games with hearts as the stakes
The difference: Trashy teen scheming — seduction without the yearning

Forbidden love versus an order built to contain it
The difference: A three-hour musical — sincerity dialed past irony

Obsession with an untouchable woman driving men to ruin
The difference: Historical epic scale — battle and honor eclipse romance

Devotion pushed to the point of self-destruction
The difference: Von Trier's cruelty — it will genuinely hurt to watch

Luhrmann going maximal — sweeping romance, gorgeous excess
The difference: Outback war epic — the intimacy drowns in the scale

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Both land tenderness and obsession at once
The difference: Takes it somewhere less hopeful than The Great Gatsby does

Luhrmann's doomed lovers, drenched in the same dazzle
The difference: Teen tragedy in Shakespearean verse — dialogue takes effort

Both keep coming back to the same thing: infidelity
The difference: Easier on the obsession than The Great Gatsby
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