Movies Like A Very Short Film About Longing

If you liked A Very Short Film About Longing (2023), a movie directed by Eimear McBride, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
It Ends with Us (2024)
★ 6.9/10
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for…
2
Endings, Beginnings (2020)
★ 6/10
An artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.
3
Never Let Me Go (2010)
★ 6.8/10
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one…
4
The Promise (2016)
★ 6.8/10
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
5
Persuasion (2007)
★ 7.2/10
Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are forced to rent out their mansion to…
6
Persuasion (1995)
★ 7.2/10
In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening…
7
Dot the I (2003)
★ 6/10
A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.
8
Fingernails (2023)
★ 5.9/10
Anna and Ryan have found true love together. It's been proven by a controversial test. There's just one problem: Anna still isn't sure. Then she meets Amir.
9
How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)
★ 6.4/10
Archie has been in love with his best friend Amelia for as long as he can remember. Just when he builds up the courage to declare his feelings, she falls head over heels for Billy Walsh, a new American transfer student.
10
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
★ 6.2/10
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
11
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
★ 7.6/10
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
12
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
★ 6.8/10
Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.
13
Raintree County (1957)
★ 6.4/10
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further…
14
Look Back in Anger (1959)
★ 6.7/10
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
15
Café Society (2016)
★ 6.4/10
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
16
This Means War (2012)
★ 6.2/10
Two top CIA operatives wage an epic battle against one another after they discover they are dating the same woman.
17
The Thing Called Love (1993)
★ 6.1/10
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
18
Cyrano (2021)
★ 6.3/10
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a…
19
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
★ 6.8/10
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
20
Electric Dreams (1984)
★ 6.4/10
Miles Harding buys a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing conscious thought and emotion after an interaction with spilled champagne. Things begin getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer…