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Movies that feel likeTalk to Her (2002)

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

If you loved Talk to Her, the closest films we have are Julieta (2016), Bad Education (2004) and Breathless (1960). All three share Talk to Her's contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Enchanted April (1991).

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Julieta
2016 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 84%★ 7.1drama · romance

Pedro Almodóvar working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the grit of Talk to Her for an angle of its own

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

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Bad Education
2004 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · crime

Both are Pedro Almodóvar's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Talk to Her does

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

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

Two things both keep coming back to: mortality and journalist

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Talk to Her does

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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Volver
2006 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 91%★ 7.6comedy · drama · romance

The same two preoccupations: rape, and sexual abuse

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

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

One thread runs through 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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Collateral Beauty
2016 · dir. David Frankel
🍅 14%★ 6.8drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: pregnancy

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

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

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

Both land tenderness and warmth at once

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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3-Iron
2004 · dir. Kim Ki-duk
🍅 87%★ 7.9drama · romance · crime

Gritty drama, and it commits to that

A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.

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I Want You
2012 · dir. Fernando González Molina
★ 6.7drama · romance

Common ground: friendship

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.

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Pandora's Box
1929 · dir. G.W. Pabst
🍅 93%★ 7.7drama · crime · romanceMax

Romance built on melancholy, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1920s, in a different era of the craft

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

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