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Movies that feel likeCinderella Man (2005)

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.

If you loved Cinderella Man, the closest films we have are Jodhaa Akbar (2008), A Royal Affair (2012) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). All three share Cinderella Man's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Veer-Zaara (2004).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ron Howardromantictendercontemplativeepic
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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 81%★ 7.5romance · history · drama

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

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

Both land stillness and scale at once

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

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

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, 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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Never Look Away
2018 · dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
🍅 77%★ 7.7drama · romance · history

History built on stillness, 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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Anna Karenina
2012 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 63%★ 6.6drama · romance · historyParamount+

Both lean on scale more than on romance

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

Romantic drama in both cases

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

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

Tender history, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Cinderella Man does

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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Amour
2012 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: daughter

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

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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Head-On
2004 · dir. Fatih Akin
★ 7.9drama · romance

Romance built on stillness, twice over

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.

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Veer-Zaara
2004 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 94%★ 7.8drama · romanceNetflix

Both know what they want from drama

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

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Dil Chahta Hai
2001 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
🍅 100%★ 8.1drama · romanceNetflix

Romance in the same key

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.

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