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Movies that feel likeBrooklyn (2015)

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

If you loved Brooklyn, the closest films we have are A Royal Affair (2012), Bajirao Mastani (2015) and Never Look Away (2018). All three share Brooklyn's contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Jodhaa Akbar (2008).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Crowleycontemplativeepicromantictender
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If Brooklyn hit the spot, these will too

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

Common ground: love triangle

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

Contemplative and epic in the same breath

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Both land romance and tenderness at once

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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Anna Karenina
2012 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 63%★ 6.6drama · romance · historyParamount+

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

Epic history in both cases

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

Romance with a pulse of romance, 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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Cinderella Man
2005 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 80%★ 8romance · drama · history

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

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

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Brooklyn 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

Epic history, and it commits to that

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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45 Years
2015 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 96%★ 7.1drama · romance

One thread runs through both: marriage

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

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

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

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

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

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

Romance built on tenderness, twice over

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

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