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Movies that feel like2046 (2004)

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

If you loved 2046, the closest films we have are Happy Together (1997), Devdas (2002) and A Walk to Remember (2002). All three share 2046's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Forgotten Love (2023).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Days of Being Wild (1990) · In the Mood for Love (2000)

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Happy Together
1997 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · romanceMax

Wong Kar-Wai working the same nerve twice

The difference: Easier on the ideas than 2046

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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Devdas
2002 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
★ 7.6drama · romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic 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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A Walk to Remember
2002 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 30%★ 7.3drama · romance

Both land tenderness and wistfulness at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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 Fountain
2006 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 52%★ 7.1drama · science fiction · romance

Drama with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

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Bicentennial Man
1999 · dir. Chris Columbus
🍅 38%★ 6.9drama · romance · science fictionPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: android

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

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

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

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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Forgotten Love
2023 · dir. Michał Gazda
★ 7.5drama · romanceNetflix

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.

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As Tears Go By
1988 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%★ 7drama · crime · romanceMax

Wong Kar-Wai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Sits closer to crime than 2046 does

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

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

Drama built on romance, twice over

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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A Brighter Summer Day
1991 · dir. Edward Yang
🍅 100%★ 8.2crime · drama · romance

One thread runs through both: murder

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

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

Both lean on tenderness more than on romance

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

Science fiction built on wistfulness, twice over

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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