Movies Like The Legend of Paul and Paula
If you liked The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973), a drama and romance movie directed by Heiner Carow, 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.
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Cocoon (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceIn the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her…
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Love in Thoughts (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.
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Faraway, So Close! (1993)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceA group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, and—in what turns out to be a key theme here—Americans.
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Faust (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
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Love of Your Life (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also romance and dramaAfter a chance encounter sparks a sweeping romance, Maya's future is suddenly upended, sending her on an unexpected journey to love and live again.
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Brief Encounter (1945)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romanceReturning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during…
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
★ 7.7/10Also romance and dramaEmmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a…
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Head-On (2004)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceWith the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
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Victoria (2015)
★ 7.6/10Also romanceA young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceIn Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years…
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Two Lovers (2008)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceA depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
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Arch of Triumph (1948)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceIn the winter of 1938, Paris is crowded with refugees from the Nazis, who live in the black shadows of night, trying to evade deportation. One such is Dr. Ravic, who practices medicine illegally and stalks his old Nazi…
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Fabian: Going to the Dogs (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceIn 1930s Berlin, Dr. Jakob Fabian, who works by day in advertising for a cigarette company and by night wanders the streets of the city, falls in love with an actress. As her career begins to blossom, prospects for his…
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Closer (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceThe relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
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Blue Valentine (2010)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceDean 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…
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Third Person (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceAn acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
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All of You (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and dramaLaura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
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The Edge of Heaven (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother…
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All of Us Strangers (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also romance and dramaOne night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceReporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic…