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Movies that feel like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

If you loved The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the closest films we have are A Man and a Woman (1966), Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Marty (1955). All three share The Umbrellas of Cherbourg's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on YouTube TV, HBO Max Amazon Channel and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

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A Man and a Woman
1966 · dir. Claude Lelouch
🍅 75%7.5drama · romance

Both keep circling back to 1960s

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

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Splendor in the Grass
1961 · dir. Elia Kazan
🍅 75%7.7drama · romance

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

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Marty
1955 · dir. Delbert Mann
🍅 96%7.7drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 · dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
🍅 100%8romance · drama

Contemplative romance in both cases

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 97%7.9drama · romance

Both trade on romance more than on being drama

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

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Journey to Italy
1954 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 96%7.3drama · romance

Tender romance, and it commits to that

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

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Days of Heaven
1978 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 93%7.7drama · romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 100%7.8drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

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Brief Encounter
1945 · dir. David Lean
🍅 95%8drama · romance

Both work the same tenderness

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

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The Remains of the Day
1993 · dir. James Ivory
🍅 96%7.8drama · romance

1950s sits at the heart of each

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

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

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Casablanca
1943 · dir. Michael Curtiz
🍅 99%8.5drama · romance

Both are drama through and through

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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Titanic
1997 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 88%8drama · romance

The same romance instincts

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.

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