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Movies that feel likeFlipped (2010)

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

If you loved Flipped, the closest films we have are Two Lovers (2008), The Reader (2008) and Weekend (2011). All three share Flipped'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 Sidewalls (2011).

πŸ… 54% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Rob Reinerromantictendercontemplative
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Two Lovers
2008 Β· dir. James Gray
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7drama Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: neighbor

The difference: Reviewed even better

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.

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The Reader
2008 Β· dir. Stephen Daldry
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance

Romantic and tender in the same breath

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

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Weekend
2011 Β· dir. Andrew Haigh
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romanceRent or buy

Contemplative romance in both cases

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

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Sidewalls
2011 Β· dir. Gustavo Taretto
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7.5drama Β· romance

Both lean on romance more than on drama

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

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My Name Is Khan
2010 Β· dir. Karan Johar
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

Tender romance, and it commits to that

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

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Water for Elephants
2011 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 60%β˜… 6.9drama Β· romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

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Certified Copy
2010 Β· dir. Abbas Kiarostami
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romanceRent or buy

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

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The Best of Me
2014 Β· dir. Michael Hoffman
πŸ… 12%β˜… 6.7drama Β· romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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Free Fall
2013 Β· dir. Stephan Lacant
β˜… 7.5drama Β· romance

Both run contemplative where it counts

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.

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Amour
2012 Β· dir. Michael Haneke
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance

The romance is handled with the same confidence

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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The Lunchbox
2013 Β· dir. Ritesh Batra
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance

Drama of the same temperament

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

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Revolutionary Road
2008 Β· dir. Sam Mendes
πŸ… 67%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romance

Both play romance straight

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

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