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Movies that feel likeHiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

If you loved Hiroshima Mon Amour, the closest films we have are Cleopatra (1963), The Woman Next Door (1981) and The Earrings of Madame de... (1953). All three share Hiroshima Mon Amour'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 Black Orpheus (1959).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alain Resnaiscontemplativeepicromantictender
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Cleopatra
1963 · dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
🍅 61%★ 7drama · history · romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then scale

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.

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

The same two preoccupations: france, and extramarital affair

The difference: Easier on the scale than Hiroshima Mon Amour

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

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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 97%★ 7.8drama · romanceMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

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A Man and a Woman
1966 · dir. Claude Lelouch
🍅 75%★ 7.5drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: france

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

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Summer with Monika
1953 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 7.5drama · romance

One thread runs through both: black and white

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

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Black Orpheus
1959 · dir. Marcel Camus
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · romanceMax

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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Splendor in the Grass
1961 · dir. Elia Kazan
🍅 75%★ 7.7drama · romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

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The Red Shoes
1948 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 98%★ 8.1drama · romanceMax

Common ground: new love

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

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Only Angels Have Wings
1939 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 100%★ 7.6romance · adventure · drama

Both lean on scale more than on romance

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Hiroshima Mon Amour does

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

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The Silence
1963 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 85%★ 7.7drama · romance

History with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · dir. Jacques Demy
🍅 97%★ 7.8drama · romanceMax

Tender drama in both cases

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

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Contempt
1963 · dir. Jean-Luc Godard
🍅 92%★ 7.4drama · romance

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

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