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Movies that feel likeCODA (2021)

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

If you loved CODA, the closest films we have are Cold War (2018), Little Women (2019) and Once (2007). All three share CODA'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 Devdas (2002).

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Cold War
2018 · dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
🍅 92%★ 7.5romance · music · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative and stylish in the same breath

The difference: Trades the wistfulness of CODA for an angle of its own

A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.

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Little Women
2019 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 95%★ 7.7drama · romanceHulu

Two things both keep coming back to: massachusetts and growing up

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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Once
2007 · dir. John Carney
🍅 97%★ 7.8drama · music · romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.

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Dirty Dancing
1987 · dir. Emile Ardolino
🍅 73%★ 7.1drama · music · romance

One thread runs through both: growing up

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

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20th Century Girl
2022 · dir. Bang Woo-ri
🍅 86%★ 7.4romance · dramaNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: first love

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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A Star Is Born
2018 · dir. Bradley Cooper
🍅 90%★ 7.6music · drama · romanceRent or buy

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.

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A Beautiful Life
2023 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 33%★ 6.4drama · music · romanceNetflix

Stylish music in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

When a young fisherman with a hidden talent gets discovered by a music producer, he must decide if he's ready to open himself up to stardom — and love.

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Devdas
2002 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
★ 7.6drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of wistfulness, in both cases

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

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Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
🍅 88%★ 7.6romance · drama

Both lean on romance more than on drama

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

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Almost Famous
2000 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 91%★ 7.9drama · musicParamount+

Wistful music, and it commits to that

In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom.

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The Bélier Family
2014 · dir. Éric Lartigau
🍅 83%★ 7.3comedy · music · drama

Both are working the same pair: deaf, singing

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than CODA does

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

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Call Me by Your Name
2017 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 95%★ 7.8romance · dramaNetflix

Common ground: first love

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

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