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Movies Like Close Range Love

If you liked Close Range Love (2014), a drama and romance movie directed by Naoto Kumazawa, 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. 1Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  2. 2The Best of Me

    The Best of Me (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

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

  3. 3Psychic School Wars

    Psychic School Wars (2012)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    It's a new school year at the local Junior High School i Kamakura. The school year starts off with a new transfer student Ryoichi Kyogoku who joins the 8th grade class. He has been ordered to join the school, and use…

  4. 4After

    After (2019)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious…

  5. 5Love Everlasting

    Love Everlasting (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and drama

    Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.

  6. 6Sky of Love

    Sky of Love (2007)

    ★ 7.7/10Also romance and drama

    Mika is a fresh high school student who starts texting a mysterious boy. She is shocked when he reveals who he is - Hiro, a delinquent attending her school. What she doesn't know is that Hiro isn't as bad as he seems.

  7. 7Clannad: The Motion Picture

    Clannad: The Motion Picture (2007)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Plagued by a seemingly endless stream of haunting dreams, Tomoya drifts through life with an almost overwhelming sense of anger and emptiness. Then, one fateful day, he meets the mysterious and beautiful Nagisa, and…

  8. 8Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

  9. 9Endless Love

    Endless Love (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

  10. 10Really Love

    Really Love (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama

    A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.

  11. 11Circle of Friends

    Circle of Friends (1995)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?

  12. 12Life in a Year

    Life in a Year (2020)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama and romance

    A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

  13. 13Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid

    Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid (2023)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Finally, the day of Mai's high school graduation has arrived. While Sakuta eagerly waits for his girlfriend, an elementary schooler who looks exactly like her appears before him. Suspicious, and for all the wrong…

  14. 14Shout

    Shout (1991)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and romance

    A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.

  15. 15Purple Hearts

    Purple Hearts (2022)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

  16. 16The Man from Elysian Fields

    The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

  17. 17Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

    Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?

  18. 18Blind

    Blind (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

  19. 19Fireworks

    Fireworks (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and drama

    Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.

  20. 20Drawing Closer

    Drawing Closer (2024)

    ★ 8.5/10Also romance and drama

    With only a year left to live, 17-year-old Akito finds new meaning in life by bringing joy to a terminally ill girl who has just six months remaining.

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