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Movies that feel likeI Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)

After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.

If you loved I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, the closest films we have are Five Feet Apart (2019), P.S. I Love You (2007) and Blue Valentine (2010). All three share I Want to Eat Your Pancreas' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Hustler (1961).

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If I Want to Eat Your Pancreas hit the spot, these will too

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Five Feet Apart
2019 · dir. Justin Baldoni
🍅 53%★ 7.2romance · dramaRent or buy

Common ground in both: terminal illness and hospital

Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.

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P.S. I Love You
2007 · dir. Richard LaGravenese
★ 7drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: mortality

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

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Blue Valentine
2010 · dir. Derek Cianfrance
🍅 87%★ 7.3drama · romancePrime VideoParamount+

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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Remember Me
2010 · dir. Allen Coulter
🍅 26%★ 7.1drama · romancePeacock

Both land tenderness and melancholy at once

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

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Closer
2004 · dir. Mike Nichols
🍅 67%★ 7.1drama · romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

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The Hustler
1961 · dir. Robert Rossen
🍅 94%★ 7.9drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

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Midnight Sun
2018 · dir. Scott Speer
🍅 21%★ 6.6romance · dramaPrime VideoHulu

One thread runs through both: terminal illness

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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Your Fault
2024 · dir. Domingo González
🍅 20%★ 5.3drama · romancePrime Video

Animation built on tenderness, twice over

The love between Noah and Nick seems unwavering despite their parents' attempts to separate them. But his job and her entry into college open up their lives to new relationships that will shake the foundations of both their relationship and the Leister family itself.

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A Ghost Story
2017 · dir. David Lowery
🍅 91%★ 6.8drama · fantasy · romance

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

The difference: Leans further into fantasy

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

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Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 · dir. Jim Jarmusch
🍅 86%★ 7.2drama · romance · fantasy

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

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Collateral Beauty
2016 · dir. David Frankel
🍅 14%★ 6.8drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: shocking

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

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Talk to Her
2002 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 91%★ 7.9drama · romance

Common ground: mortality

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

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