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Movies that feel likeA Royal Affair (2012)

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

If you loved A Royal Affair, the closest films we have are Jodhaa Akbar (2008), Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Never Look Away (2018). All three share A Royal Affair's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Sidewalls (2011).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nikolaj Arcelcontemplativeepicromantictender
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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 81%★ 7.5romance · history · drama

Both land stillness and scale at once

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

Romantic and tender in the same breath

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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Never Look Away
2018 · dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
🍅 77%★ 7.7drama · romance · history

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

The same preoccupation in both: love triangle

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

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Free Fall
2013 · dir. Stephan Lacant
★ 7.5drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: infidelity

The difference: Easier on the scale than A Royal Affair

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.

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

History built on scale, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

One thread runs through both: secret love

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

Romance with a pulse of romance, 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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Sidewalls
2011 · dir. Gustavo Taretto
🍅 70%★ 7.5drama · romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

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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Weekend
2011 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama · romanceRent or buy

Contemplative romance in both cases

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.

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The Lunchbox
2013 · dir. Ritesh Batra
🍅 97%★ 7.8drama · romance

Romantic history in both cases

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

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Certified Copy
2010 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%★ 7.2drama · romanceRent or buy

Tender drama in both cases

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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