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Movies that feel likeAll the Bright Places (2020)

Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

If you loved All the Bright Places, the closest films we have are The Virgin Suicides (2000), Blue Valentine (2010) and Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013). All three share All the Bright Places' romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Devdas (2002).

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The Virgin Suicides
2000 Β· dir. Sofia Coppola
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance

The same two preoccupations: suicide, and growing up

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

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

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

Both are working the same pair: depression, love

The difference: Easier on the wistfulness than All the Bright Places

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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Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 Β· dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama

One thread runs through both: growing up

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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Little Women
2019 Β· dir. Greta Gerwig
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romanceHulu

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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A Walk to Remember
2002 Β· dir. Adam Shankman
πŸ… 30%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romance

Contemplative and wistful in the same breath

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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Call Me by Your Name
2017 Β· dir. Luca Guadagnino
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.8romance Β· dramaNetflix

Common ground: love

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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Midnight Sun
2018 Β· dir. Scott Speer
πŸ… 21%β˜… 6.6romance Β· dramaPrime VideoHulu

Romance built on melancholy, twice over

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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Your Fault
2024 Β· dir. Domingo GonzΓ‘lez
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.3drama Β· romancePrime Video

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

The love between Noah and Nick seems unwavering despite their parents' attempts to separate them. But his job and her entry into college open up their lives to new relationships that will shake the foundations of both their relationship and the Leister family itself.

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Aftersun
2022 Β· dir. Charlotte Wells
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6dramaRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: depression

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

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20th Century Girl
2022 Β· dir. Bang Woo-ri
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.4romance Β· dramaNetflix

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

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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Devdas
2002 Β· dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee β€” unable to marry his lover β€” takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

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A Ghost Story
2017 Β· dir. David Lowery
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.8drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: loss

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than All the Bright Places does

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

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