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Movies that feel likeI Want You (2012)

After two years away, Hache returns to Barcelona seeking a fresh start. Falling for Gin while facing unresolved feelings for Babi, he must confront love, loss, and who he's becoming.

If you loved I Want You, the closest films we have are Enchanted April (1991), Challengers (2024) and Jules and Jim (1962). All three share I Want You'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 Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Three Steps Above Heaven (2010)

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Enchanted April
1991 · dir. Mike Newell
🍅 85%★ 7.3romance · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

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Challengers
2024 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 88%★ 7drama · romanceParamount+

Tender where it counts, warm underneath

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

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Jules and Jim
1962 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 94%★ 7.6drama · romanceMax

Two things both keep coming back to: friendship and love

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

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Flipped
2010 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 54%★ 7.6romance · drama

The same two preoccupations: teenage love, and young love

The difference: Trades the warmth of I Want You for an angle of its own

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.

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Jab Tak Hai Jaan
2012 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 92%★ 6.7drama · romanceNetflix

Contemplative drama in both cases

Samar Anand, a London-based struggling musician falls in love with Meera Thappar. After a severe accident, a panicked Meera promises God to leave Samar if he lives. Heartbroken, Samar leaves for India to become a fearless bomb disposal expert in the army.

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Amour
2012 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 93%★ 7.9drama · romance

Common ground: love

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 Best of Me
2014 · dir. Michael Hoffman
🍅 12%★ 6.7drama · romance

Romance built on romance, twice over

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

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Paper Towns
2015 · dir. Jake Schreier
🍅 58%★ 6.2mystery · drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than I Want You does

Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows. After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Quentin arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Quentin soon learns that there are clues, and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer Quentin gets, the less he sees of the girl he thought he knew.

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Like Crazy
2011 · dir. Drake Doremus
🍅 70%★ 6.6drama · romance

Tender drama, and it commits to that

A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

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With Every Heartbeat
2011 · dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining
★ 6.8romance · drama

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

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The Longest Ride
2015 · dir. George Tillman Jr.
🍅 31%★ 7drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on drama

The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

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Eat Pray Love
2010 · dir. Ryan Murphy
🍅 34%★ 5.9drama · romanceNetflix

Tender romance, and it commits to that

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

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