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Movies that feel likeAustralia (2008)

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.

If you loved Australia, the closest films we have are Anna Karenina (2012), Jodhaa Akbar (2008) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). All three share Australia's epic and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Medicine for Melancholy (2009).

🍅 53% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Baz Luhrmannepicromantictendercontemplative
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Anna Karenina
2012 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 63%★ 6.6drama · romance · historyParamount+

Epic where it counts, romantic underneath

The difference: Leans harder into history than Australia does

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

Tender and contemplative in the same breath

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Common ground: world war ii

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

One thread runs through both: world war ii

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

Both lean on scale more than on romance

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

Romantic drama in both cases

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

Adventure built on tenderness, twice over

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

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

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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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 · dir. Peter Flinth
★ 6.6action · adventure · drama

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

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Medicine for Melancholy
2009 · dir. Barry Jenkins
🍅 85%★ 6.6drama · romance

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the scale than Australia

Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a deeper connection.

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My Name Is Khan
2010 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 88%★ 7.9drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: prejudice

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

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Two Lovers
2008 · dir. James Gray
🍅 81%★ 7drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.

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