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Movies that feel like The Way He Looks (2014)

If you loved The Way He Looks, the closest films we have are I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (2011), 20th Century Girl (2022) and Flavors of Youth (2018). All three share The Way He Looks' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes7.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Daniel Ribeirocontemplativeromantictenderwarmwistful

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I Don't Want to Go Back Alone
2011 · dir. Daniel Ribeiro
8.2drama · romance

Daniel Ribeiro working the same nerve twice

The difference: Missing the warmth of The Way He Looks

The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.

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20th Century Girl
2022 · dir. Bang Woo-ri
🍅 86%7.4romance · drama

Both are working the same pair: friendship, growing up

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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Flavors of Youth
2018 · dir. Joshua
🍅 83%6.6animation · romance · drama

One thread runs through both: friendship

The difference: Leans harder into animation than The Way He Looks does

The rigorous city life of China, while bustling and unforgiving, contains the everlasting memories of days past. Three stories told in three different cities, follow the loss of youth and the daunting realization of adulthood. Though reality may seem ever changing, unchangeable are the short-lived moments of one's childhood days. A plentiful bowl of noodles, the beauty of family and the trials of first love endure the inevitable flow of time, as three different characters explore the strength of bonds and the warmth of cherished memories. Within the disorder of the present world, witness these quaint stories recognize the comfort of the past, and attempt to revive the neglected flavors of youth.

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

Two things both keep coming back to: lgbt and gay theme

The difference: Not nearly as warm as The Way He Looks

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

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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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%7.5comedy · romance · drama

Common ground: lgbt teen

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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

Both land stillness and romance at once

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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House of Hummingbird
2019 · dir. Kim Bora
🍅 98%7.4drama

The same preoccupation in both: lgbt teen

14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.

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

Both are built on the same subject: lgbt

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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Weekend
2011 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 95%7.6drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: gay theme

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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