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Movies that feel likeAfter We Fell (2021)

Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin, who is furious when he discovers the massive secret that she's been keeping. Before Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes because of revelations about her family.

If you loved After We Fell, the closest films we have are The Souvenir (2019), The Longest Ride (2015) and With Every Heartbeat (2011). All three share After We Fell'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 Asako I & II (2018).

🍅 9% Rotten Tomatoes★ 4.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Castille Landoncontemplativeromantictender
4 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · MUBI · Fandor

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: After (2019) · After We Collided (2020)

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The Souvenir
2019 · dir. Joanna Hogg
🍅 90%★ 6.4drama · romanceRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: toxic relationship

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

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The Longest Ride
2015 · dir. George Tillman Jr.
🍅 31%★ 7drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: love

The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

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With Every Heartbeat
2011 · dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining
★ 6.8romance · drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

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One Day
2011 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 36%★ 7drama · romance

One thread runs through both: love

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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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%★ 7.1drama · romance

Tender drama in both cases

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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Water for Elephants
2011 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 60%★ 6.9drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

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Fifty Shades Freed
2018 · dir. James Foley
🍅 11%★ 4.6drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: based on fanfiction

Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.

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Gabriel's Inferno
2020 · dir. Tosca Musk
★ 5.8romance · dramaRent or buy

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness and love.

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365 Days: This Day
2022 · dir. Barbara Białowąs
★ 2.8romance · dramaNetflix

Romance built on tenderness, twice over

Laura and Massimo are back and hotter than ever. But the reunited couple's new beginning is complicated by Massimo’s family ties and a mysterious man who enters Laura’s life to win her heart and trust, at any cost.

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Love
2015 · dir. Gaspar Noé
🍅 42%★ 6.1drama · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.

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Eat Pray Love
2010 · dir. Ryan Murphy
🍅 34%★ 5.9drama · romanceNetflix

Both lean on romance more than on romance

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

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The Best of Me
2014 · dir. Michael Hoffman
🍅 12%★ 6.7drama · romance

A streak of tenderness through both

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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