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Movies that feel likeThe Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

If you loved The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, the closest films we have are Marty (1955), A Matter of Life and Death (1946) and Scenes from a Marriage (1974). All three share The Ghost and Mrs. Muir's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Earrings of Madame de... (1953).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joseph L. Mankiewiczromantictenderdreamlikecontemplativelonely
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Marty
1955 · dir. Delbert Mann
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama · romancePrime Video

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

The difference: Trades the dream logic of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir for an angle of its own

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.

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A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · dir. Emeric Pressburger
🍅 97%★ 8romance · fantasy · drama

Dreamlike and contemplative in the same breath

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

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Scenes from a Marriage
1974 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
★ 8.3drama · romanceMax

Lonely romance, and it commits to that

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1970s show

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

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The Earrings of Madame de...
1953 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 97%★ 7.8drama · romanceMax

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

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God's Own Country
2017 · dir. Francis Lee
🍅 97%★ 7.6romance · drama

Drama built on romance, twice over

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

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Letter from an Unknown Woman
1948 · dir. Max Ophüls
🍅 100%★ 7.8drama · romance

Fantasy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

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Cleopatra
1963 · dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
🍅 61%★ 7drama · history · romance

Joseph L. Mankiewicz working the same nerve twice

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.

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Great Expectations
1946 · dir. David Lean
🍅 100%★ 7.8drama · romanceMax

Contemplative romance in both cases

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

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Summer with Monika
1953 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 7.5drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

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Children of Paradise
1945 · dir. Marcel Carné
🍅 98%★ 8.3drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on drama

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.

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Wuthering Heights
1939 · dir. William Wyler
🍅 92%★ 7.5drama · romancePrime VideoMax

Same instincts, 8 years apart

Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.

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Belle de Jour
1967 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 95%★ 7.6drama · romanceMax

Dreamlike romance in both cases

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

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