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Movies that feel likeThe Best Offer (2013)

Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

If you loved The Best Offer, the closest films we have are Better Days (2019), 3-Iron (2004) and Days of Being Wild (1990). All three share The Best Offer'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 Sidewalls (2011).

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Giuseppe Tornatorecontemplativeromantictendergritty
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Better Days
2019 · dir. Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung
🍅 97%★ 7.6drama · crime · romanceRent or buy

Both land stillness and romance at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

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

The same mix in both: tenderness, then grit

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Pierrot le Fou
1965 · dir. Jean-Luc Godard
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · romance · crimeMax

Common ground: painting

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.

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

Romance with a pulse of romance, 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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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019 · dir. Céline Sciamma
🍅 98%★ 8drama · romanceMax

Both are built on the same subject: painting

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than The Best Offer does

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

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The Lunchbox
2013 · dir. Ritesh Batra
🍅 97%★ 7.8drama · romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on crime

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

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Free Fall
2013 · dir. Stephan Lacant
★ 7.5drama · romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.

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Read My Lips
2001 · dir. Jacques Audiard
🍅 97%★ 7.3crime · drama · romance

Gritty romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Best Offer does

She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

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

Romantic crime in both cases

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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Weekend
2011 · dir. Andrew Haigh
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama · romanceRent or buy

Tender drama, and it commits to that

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

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Sidewalls
2011 · dir. Gustavo Taretto
🍅 70%★ 7.5drama · romance

Both working the same romance territory

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

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