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Movies that feel like The Virgin Suicides (2000)

If you loved The Virgin Suicides, the closest films we have are A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016), A Walk to Remember (2002) and Devdas (2002). All three share The Virgin Suicides' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sofia Coppolacontemplativeromantictenderwistful

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A Silent Voice: The Movie
2016 · dir. Naoko Yamada
8.2animation · drama · romance

Both are working the same pair: suicide, suicide attempt

The difference: Sits closer to animation than The Virgin Suicides does

Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?

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A Walk to Remember
2002 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 30%7.3drama · romance

One thread runs through both: growing up

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

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Devdas
2002 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
7.5drama · romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

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5 Centimeters per Second
2007 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
7.4animation · romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

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The Garden of Words
2013 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
7.4animation · drama · romance

Tender and wistful in the same breath

Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

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Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
🍅 88%7.6romance · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

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Y Tu Mamá También
2001 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 90%7.7drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on romance

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

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All the Bright Places
2020 · dir. Brett Haley
🍅 67%6.6romance · drama

Common ground: suicide

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
6.3comedy · romance · drama

Both are built on the same subject: catholic

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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Cinema Paradiso
1988 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 90%8.5drama · romance

Tender drama, and it commits to that

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%7comedy · drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of wistfulness, in both cases

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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Little Women
2019 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 95%7.8drama · romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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