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Movies that feel like Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

If you loved Y Tu Mamá También, the closest films we have are The Way He Looks (2014), 20th Century Girl (2022) and Flavors of Youth (2018). All three share Y Tu Mamá También's 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.

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.

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfonso Cuaróncontemplativeromantictenderwarmwistful

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The Way He Looks
2014 · dir. Daniel Ribeiro
🍅 93%7.9drama · romance

Both are working the same pair: friendship, growing up

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.

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

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

The difference: Sits closer to animation than Y Tu Mamá También 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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A Summer's Tale
1996 · dir. Éric Rohmer
🍅 98%7.6romance · drama · comedy

Common ground: beach

The difference: Not nearly as warm as Y Tu Mamá También

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

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

The same preoccupation in both: adolescence

The difference: Missing the warmth of Y Tu Mamá También

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

Tender where it counts, wistful underneath

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 lean on stillness more than on drama

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 Virgin Suicides
2000 · dir. Sofia Coppola
🍅 80%7.2drama · romance

Romantic romance in both cases

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

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Talk to Her
2002 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 91%7.9drama · romance

Drama built on warmth, twice over

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

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

Tender romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Drama with a pulse of wistfulness, in both cases

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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