
Movies that feel likeDear John (2010)
If you loved Dear John, the closest films we have are Battle for Sevastopol (2015), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Never Let Me Go (2010). All three share Dear John'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 Mrs. Miniver (1942).
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If Dear John hit the spot, these will too

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

Both are Lasse Hallström's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Tender where it counts, bleak underneath
The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Dear John does

One thread runs through both: love
The difference: Sits closer to action than Dear John does

Contemplative drama in both cases
The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Both keep coming back to the same thing: army
The difference: Easier on the tenderness than Dear John


Both lean on tenderness more than on war

Drama built on bleakness, twice over

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

Romantic war, and it commits to that
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