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Movies that feel likeThe Quiet Man (1952)

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

If you loved The Quiet Man, the closest films we have are A Summer's Tale (1996), Show Me Love (1998) and The Graduate (1967). All three share The Quiet Man'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 Gregory's Girl (1980).

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If The Quiet Man hit the spot, these will too

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A Summer's Tale
1996 · dir. Éric Rohmer
🍅 98%★ 7.6romance · drama · comedyMax

Both land romance and tenderness at once

The difference: 44 years apart, and the 1990s show

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%★ 7.5comedy · romance · drama

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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The Graduate
1967 · dir. Mike Nichols
🍅 87%★ 8drama · romance · comedy

Contemplative where it counts, wistful underneath

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

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Limelight
1952 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 88%★ 8romance · drama · comedyMax

Both lean on romance more than on romance

The difference: Takes it somewhere less wistful than The Quiet Man does

A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

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Punch-Drunk Love
2002 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 79%★ 7.3romance · drama · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: nostalgic

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

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Licorice Pizza
2021 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.1drama · comedy · romanceRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: love

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
★ 6.3comedy · romance · drama

Tender comedy in both cases

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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Sissi
1955 · dir. Ernst Marischka
★ 7comedy · drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of wit, in both cases

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out fishing and they fall in love.

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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 100%★ 7.4romance · drama · comedy

Romance built on play, twice over

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010 · dir. Anna Boden
🍅 58%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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Gregory's Girl
1980 · dir. Bill Forsyth
🍅 95%★ 7.1comedy · romance

Both lean on wistfulness more than on drama

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

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Sabrina
1954 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 89%★ 7.6comedy · romance · drama

Common ground: love

After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.

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