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Movies that feel like Weekend (2011)

If you loved Weekend, the closest films we have are 45 Years (2015), Happy Together (1997) and The Fault in Our Stars (2014). All three share Weekend's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel and AMC+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 95% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Andrew Haighcontemplativeromantictender

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Spa Weekend (2026)

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45 Years
2015 Β· dir. Andrew Haigh
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

The same hand behind both of them: Andrew Haigh

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

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Happy Together
1997 Β· dir. Wong Kar-Wai
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Lgbt and gay theme, at the center of both

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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The Fault in Our Stars
2014 Β· dir. Josh Boone
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

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Brokeback Mountain
2005 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance

Both built around lgbt

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

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Medicine for Melancholy
2009 Β· dir. Barry Jenkins
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.6drama Β· romance

One-night stand sits at the heart of each

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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Slumdog Millionaire
2008 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 92%β˜… 8drama Β· romance

Both trade on tenderness more than on being drama

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

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Up in the Air
2009 Β· dir. Jason Reitman
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4drama Β· romance

Romance built on stillness, twice over

Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

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Blue Valentine
2010 Β· dir. Derek Cianfrance
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romance

Romantic drama in both cases

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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The Notebook
2004 Β· dir. Nick Cassavetes
πŸ… 55%β˜… 7.8romance Β· drama

Tender romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

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One Day
2011 Β· dir. Lone Scherfig
πŸ… 36%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

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Pride & Prejudice
2005 Β· dir. Joe Wright
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Romantic romance in both cases

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

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Remember Me
2010 Β· dir. Allen Coulter
πŸ… 26%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romance

Both sit in the same tender register

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

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