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Movies that feel like The Next Three Days (2010)

If you loved The Next Three Days, the closest films we have are Read My Lips (2001), The Reader (2008) and Victoria (2015). All three share The Next Three Days' romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.

🍅 50% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paul Haggisromantictendercontemplativetensegritty
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Read My Lips
2001 · dir. Jacques Audiard
🍅 97%7.3crime · drama · romance

Romantic and tender in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

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

The same two preoccupations: women's prison, and female prisoner

The difference: Not nearly as tense as The Next Three Days

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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Victoria
2015 · dir. Sebastian Schipper
🍅 82%7.6crime · thriller · romance

Both land tension and grit at once

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

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The Best Offer
2013 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 56%7.8drama · romance · crime

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

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3-Iron
2004 · dir. Kim Ki-duk
🍅 87%7.9drama · romance · crime

Both lean on romance more than on drama

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

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Better Days
2019 · dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
🍅 97%7.6drama · crime · romance

Crime built on tenderness, twice over

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

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Match Point
2005 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 77%7.6drama · romance · thriller

Contemplative thriller in both cases

Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola.

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Head-On
2004 · dir. Fatih Akin
7.9drama · romance

One thread runs through both: homicide

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

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Days of Being Wild
1990 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 91%7.4crime · drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

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As Tears Go By
1988 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%7drama · crime · romance

Drama built on romance, twice over

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

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Tuner
2026 · dir. Daniel Roher
🍅 94%7.2crime · drama · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

A talented piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.

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The Yellow Sea
2010 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 88%7.3drama · thriller · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

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