
Movies that feel likeMelancholia (2011)
If you loved Melancholia, the closest films we have are Lilting (2014), Before I Fall (2017) and Rachel Getting Married (2008). All three share Melancholia's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006).
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If Melancholia hit the spot, these will too

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath
The difference: Easier on the ideas than Melancholia

Both are built on the same subject: suicide
The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Melancholia does

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that

Science fiction with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to romance than Melancholia does

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The same preoccupation in both: surrealism

Science fiction built on dream logic, twice over
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Both keep coming back to the same thing: suicide

Common ground: surrealism

Romantic drama in both cases

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

Both run cerebral where it counts
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