
Movies that feel likeThe English Patient (1996)
If you loved The English Patient, the closest films we have are Never Let Me Go (2010), Battle for Sevastopol (2015) and La Jetée (1962). All three share The English Patient'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 Ashes and Diamonds (1958).
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If The English Patient hit the spot, these will too

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath
The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The English Patient does

Common ground: world war ii
The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than The English Patient does

The same mix in both: tenderness, then bleakness
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that
The difference: Trades the ideas of The English Patient for an angle of its own

Romance built on romance, twice over

Both are built on the same subject: world war ii

War with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Both lean on bleakness more than on drama

Contemplative romance in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: amnesia

Cerebral war in both cases

Romantic drama in both cases
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