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Movies that feel likeDays of Being Wild (1990)

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

If you loved Days of Being Wild, the closest films we have are As Tears Go By (1988), Happy Together (1997) and Better Days (2019). All three share Days of Being Wild'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 Port of Shadows (1938).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Wong Kar-Waigrittycontemplativeromantictender
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: In the Mood for Love (2000) · 2046 (2004)

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As Tears Go By
1988 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%★ 7drama · crime · romanceMax

Both are Wong Kar-Wai's work, and they rhyme

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

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Happy Together
1997 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%★ 7.6drama · romanceMax

Wong Kar-Wai directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Days of Being Wild does

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.

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Better Days
2019 · dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · crime · romanceRent or buy

Both land grit and stillness at once

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 2010s show

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

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3-Iron
2004 · dir. Kim Ki-duk
🍅 87%★ 7.9drama · romance · crime

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

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Pierrot le Fou
1965 · dir. Jean-Luc Godard
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · romance · crimeMax

Crime built on grit, twice over

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

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Badlands
1973 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 97%★ 7.7drama · romance · crime

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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Read My Lips
2001 · dir. Jacques Audiard
🍅 97%★ 7.3crime · drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Days of Being Wild does

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

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Port of Shadows
1938 · dir. Marcel Carné
🍅 97%★ 7.7romance · drama · crime

Both lean on tenderness more than on crime

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

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The Woman Next Door
1981 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 85%★ 7.2drama · romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

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A Brighter Summer Day
1991 · dir. Edward Yang
🍅 100%★ 8.2crime · drama · romance

Both lean on grit more than on romance

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

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

Drama built on romance, twice over

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

Romance built on tenderness, twice over

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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