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Movies that feel likeThree Steps Above Heaven (2010)

Babi, a sheltered upper-class girl, and Hache, a reckless rebel obsessed with illegal motorcycle races, fall into a forbidden love that pulls them deeper into passion and risk.

If you loved Three Steps Above Heaven, the closest films we have are Challengers (2024), Enchanted April (1991) and Jules and Jim (1962). All three share Three Steps Above Heaven'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 20th Century Girl (2022).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: I Want You (2012)

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Challengers
2024 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 88%★ 7drama · romanceParamount+

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

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Enchanted April
1991 · dir. Mike Newell
🍅 85%★ 7.3romance · drama

Contemplative and warm in the same breath

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

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Jules and Jim
1962 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 94%★ 7.6drama · romanceMax

Both are working the same pair: friendship, love

The difference: 48 years apart, and the 1960s show

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

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Flipped
2010 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 54%★ 7.6romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: teenage love

The difference: Trades the warmth of Three Steps Above Heaven for an angle of its own

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

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The Longest Ride
2015 · dir. George Tillman Jr.
🍅 31%★ 7drama · romance

One thread runs through both: love

The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

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One Day
2011 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 36%★ 7drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

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Eat Pray Love
2010 · dir. Ryan Murphy
🍅 34%★ 5.9drama · romanceNetflix

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

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The Best of Me
2014 · dir. Michael Hoffman
🍅 12%★ 6.7drama · romance

Contemplative romance in both cases

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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Water for Elephants
2011 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 60%★ 6.9drama · romance

Drama built on romance, twice over

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

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With Every Heartbeat
2011 · dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining
★ 6.8romance · drama

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

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20th Century Girl
2022 · dir. Bang Woo-ri
🍅 86%★ 7.4romance · dramaNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: first love

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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Like Crazy
2011 · dir. Drake Doremus
🍅 70%★ 6.6drama · romance

Contemplative drama in both cases

A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

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