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Movies that feel likeAnna Karenina (2012)

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.

If you loved Anna Karenina, the closest films we have are Pride & Prejudice (2005), A Royal Affair (2012) and Bajirao Mastani (2015). All three share Anna Karenina'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 Jodhaa Akbar (2008).

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joe Wrightcontemplativeromantictenderepic
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Pride & Prejudice
2005 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 87%★ 7.8drama · romanceRent or buy

Joe Wright directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the scale of Anna Karenina for an angle of its own

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

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A Royal Affair
2012 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 90%★ 7.5drama · history · romance

Both land stillness and romance at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

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

The same mix in both: tenderness, then scale

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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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 81%★ 7.5romance · history · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on romance more than on romance

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

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

History built on tenderness, twice over

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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The Mountain Between Us
2017 · dir. Hany Abu-Assad
🍅 39%★ 6.4drama · adventure · romance

Epic drama in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Anna Karenina does

Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.

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Australia
2008 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 53%★ 6.6adventure · romance · drama

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

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

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

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

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

The same romance instincts

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

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

Drama of the same temperament

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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