
Movies that feel likeThe Blue Angel (1930)
If you loved The Blue Angel, the closest films we have are A Heart in Winter (1992), Crumb (1995) and Laura (1944). All three share The Blue Angel's contemplative and obsessive feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tony Takitani (2004).
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If The Blue Angel hit the spot, these will too

Contemplative and obsessive in the same breath
The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Blue Angel does

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
The difference: Trades the romance of The Blue Angel for an angle of its own

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Blue Angel does

Drama built on romance, twice over
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Both are built on the same subject: sexual obsession
The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

The same preoccupation in both: sexual obsession
The difference: 77 years apart, and the 2000s show

Both lean on obsession more than on drama


A streak of romance through both


Both work the same romance

Both know what they want from drama
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