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Movies that feel likeBefore I Fall (2017)

Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

If you loved Before I Fall, the closest films we have are Jackie (2016), Nomadland (2021) and Silent Heart (2014). All three share Before I Fall's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is City of Men (2007).

🍅 64% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ry Russo-Youngcontemplativedreamlikemelancholy
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Jackie
2016 · dir. Pablo Larraín
🍅 87%★ 6.6drama

Both land stillness and melancholy at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than Before I Fall does

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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Nomadland
2021 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 93%★ 7.3dramaRent or buy

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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Silent Heart
2014 · dir. Bille August
★ 7.1drama

Fantasy built on melancholy, twice over

Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.

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A Ghost Story
2017 · dir. David Lowery
🍅 91%★ 6.8drama · fantasy · romance

Both lean on dream logic more than on drama

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Before I Fall 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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Drive My Car
2021 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 97%★ 7.5dramaRent or buy

Contemplative fantasy, and it commits to that

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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The Danish Girl
2015 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 66%★ 7.1drama

Drama with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

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The Lovely Bones
2009 · dir. Peter Jackson
🍅 30%★ 6.6fantasy · dramaParamount+Peacock

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

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47 Ronin
2013 · dir. Carl Rinsch
🍅 16%★ 6.3drama · action · fantasyStarz

The same preoccupation in both: suicide

The difference: Sits closer to action than Before I Fall does

Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.

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Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 · dir. Jim Jarmusch
🍅 86%★ 7.2drama · romance · fantasy

The shared currency is dream logic

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%★ 7.2dramaParamount+

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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City of Angels
1998 · dir. Brad Silberling
★ 6.7drama · fantasy · romance

Common ground: suicide

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

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Melancholia
2011 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 80%★ 7.1drama · science fictionPeacock

Both play drama straight

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

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