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Movies that feel likeThe Wind Rises (2013)

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

If you loved The Wind Rises, the closest films we have are Never Look Away (2018), Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) and Bajirao Mastani (2015). All three share The Wind Rises' contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Asako I & II (2018).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hayao Miyazakicontemplativeepicromantictender
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Never Look Away
2018 · dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
🍅 77%★ 7.7drama · romance · history

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

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Memoirs of a Geisha
2005 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 35%★ 7.3drama · romance · history

One thread runs through both: japan

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Bajirao Mastani
2015 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
🍅 68%★ 7.3history · romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 81%★ 7.5romance · history · drama

Both are built on the same subject: biography

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

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A Royal Affair
2012 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 90%★ 7.5drama · history · romance

Contemplative where it counts, epic underneath

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

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Brooklyn
2015 · dir. John Crowley
🍅 97%★ 7.5drama · history · romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

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Anna Karenina
2012 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 63%★ 6.6drama · romance · historyParamount+

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

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Cinderella Man
2005 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 80%★ 8romance · drama · history

Epic history in both cases

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

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Australia
2008 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 53%★ 6.6adventure · romance · drama

Common ground: world war ii

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Wind Rises does

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%★ 7.1drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: earthquake

The difference: Trades the scale of The Wind Rises for an angle of its own

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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The Mountain Between Us
2017 · dir. Hany Abu-Assad
🍅 39%★ 6.4drama · adventure · romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.

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Amour
2012 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama · romance

Another one that scratches it

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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