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Movies that feel like Through the Olive Trees (1995)

If you loved Through the Olive Trees, the closest films we have are Certified Copy (2010), The Souvenir (2019) and Veer-Zaara (2004). All three share Through the Olive Trees' 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 Netflix, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Abbas Kiarostamicontemplativeromantictender
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Certified Copy
2010 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%7.2drama · romance

The same hand behind both of them: Abbas Kiarostami

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

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The Souvenir
2019 · dir. Joanna Hogg
🍅 90%6.4drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: filmmaking

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

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Veer-Zaara
2004 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 93%7.8drama · romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

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Dil Chahta Hai
2001 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
🍅 100%8.1drama · romance

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.

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Medicine for Melancholy
2009 · dir. Barry Jenkins
🍅 85%6.6drama · romance

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a deeper connection.

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

Both lean on romance more than on drama

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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Right Now, Wrong Then
2015 · dir. Hong Sang-soo
🍅 92%7.1drama · romance

Tender romance in both cases

By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...

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Sidewalls
2011 · dir. Gustavo Taretto
🍅 70%7.5drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

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The Woman Next Door
1981 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 85%7.2drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on romance

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

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Happy Together
1997 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%7.7drama · romance

Both sit in the same tender register

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.

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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%7drama · romance

Drama in the same key

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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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
2012 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 91%6.7drama · romance

Cut from the same romance cloth

Samar Anand, a London-based struggling musician falls in love with Meera Thappar. After a severe accident, a panicked Meera promises God to leave Samar if he lives. Heartbroken, Samar leaves for India to become a fearless bomb disposal expert in the army.

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