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Movies that feel likeThe Next Three Days (2010)

Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.

If you loved The Next Three Days, the closest films we have are Blue Valentine (2010), Remember Me (2010) and P.S. I Love You (2007). All three share The Next Three Days' romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Pandora's Box (1929).

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

Both land romance and tenderness at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Remember Me
2010 · dir. Allen Coulter
🍅 26%★ 7.1drama · romancePeacock

The same mix in both: stillness, then melancholy

The difference: Trades the tension of The Next Three Days for an angle of its own

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

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

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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

Tense and gritty in the same breath

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

Tender drama, and it commits to that

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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Talk to Her
2002 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 91%★ 7.9drama · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

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

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Side Effects
2013 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 82%★ 7thriller · crime · dramaPrime VideoParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: murder

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

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Tell No One
2006 · dir. Guillaume Canet
🍅 93%★ 7.5drama · thriller · crime

The same preoccupation in both: falsely accused

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Next Three Days does

A man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

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Midnight Sun
2018 · dir. Scott Speer
🍅 21%★ 6.6romance · dramaPrime VideoHulu

Melancholy crime in both cases

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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You Were Never Really Here
2017 · dir. Lynne Ramsay
🍅 89%★ 6.7crime · drama · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: murder

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

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

Romance built on grit, twice over

The difference: 81 years apart, and the 1920s show

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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The Best Offer
2013 · dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
🍅 56%★ 7.7drama · romance · crime

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

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.

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