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Movies that feel likePierrot le Fou (1965)

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

If you loved Pierrot le Fou, the closest films we have are Contempt (1963), Badlands (1973) and Breathless (1960). All three share Pierrot le Fou'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 Port of Shadows (1938).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-Luc Godardcontemplativeromantictendergritty
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Contempt
1963 · dir. Jean-Luc Godard
🍅 92%★ 7.4drama · romance

Jean-Luc Godard directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Pierrot le Fou does

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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Badlands
1973 · dir. Terrence Malick
🍅 97%★ 7.7drama · romance · crime

Common ground: fugitive lovers

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

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Breathless
1960 · dir. Jean-Luc Godard
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama · crime · romanceMax

Both are Jean-Luc Godard's work, and they rhyme

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

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On the Waterfront
1954 · dir. Elia Kazan
🍅 99%★ 8.1crime · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dock

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.

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West Side Story
1961 · dir. Jerome Robbins
🍅 92%★ 7.6crime · drama · romance

Both land stillness and romance at once

In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.

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Days of Being Wild
1990 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 91%★ 7.4crime · drama · romanceMax

Tender and gritty in the same breath

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

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

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As Tears Go By
1988 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 85%★ 7drama · crime · romanceMax

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

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Port of Shadows
1938 · dir. Marcel Carné
🍅 97%★ 7.7romance · drama · crime

Romantic romance in both cases

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

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

Tender crime, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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

Romance built on romance, twice over

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

Tender crime in both cases

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

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