
Movies that feel likeDoctor Zhivago (1965)
If you loved Doctor Zhivago, the closest films we have are Great Expectations (1946), The Hustler (1961) and Gone with the Wind (1939). All three share Doctor Zhivago'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 Ashes and Diamonds (1958).
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If Doctor Zhivago hit the spot, these will too

Both are David Lean's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Trades the bleakness of Doctor Zhivago for an angle of its own

Both land stillness and romance at once

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief
The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

The same mix in both: tenderness, then bleakness

David Lean directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

War with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Both lean on bleakness more than on drama

Common ground in both: love triangle and world war i
The difference: Leans harder into action than Doctor Zhivago does


Romance built on stillness, twice over
The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than Doctor Zhivago does
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