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Movies that feel likeLast Tango in Paris (1972)

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

If you loved Last Tango in Paris, the closest films we have are The Dreamers (2003), The Woman Next Door (1981) and A Man and a Woman (1966). All three share Last Tango in Paris' 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).

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bernardo Bertoluccicontemplativeromantictender
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If Last Tango in Paris hit the spot, these will too

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The Dreamers
2003 · dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
🍅 59%★ 7.1drama · romance

The same hand behind both of them: Bernardo Bertolucci

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 2000s show

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

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

The same preoccupation in both: extramarital affair

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

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

Common ground: love

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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Days of Heaven
1978 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 93%★ 7.7drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: love

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

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Journey to Italy
1954 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 96%★ 7.2drama · romanceMax

One thread runs through both: relationship

Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 · dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
🍅 100%★ 8romance · dramaMax

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · dir. Stanley Kramer
🍅 71%★ 7.8drama · romance

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

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

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

Tender romance, and it commits to that

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Romance built on romance, twice over

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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