Movies like Five Feet Apart

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   It Ends with Us

   Same director

   2024 · 131 min · Drama · Romance

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   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 her future.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   2 Hearts

   Strong story similarity

   2020 · 102 min · Drama · Romance

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   When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Fault in Our Stars

   Shared cast

   2014 · 126 min · Drama · Romance

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   Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: sentimental and star crossed lovers

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   Midnight Sun

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 92 min · Drama · Romance

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   Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: best friend and terminal illness

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   Clouds

   Same director

   2020 · 121 min · Drama · Music

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   Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.

   Why it connects

   • the same director
   • a closely matched era
   • similar audience response

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   Close to the Horizon

   Shared cast

   2019 · 117 min · Drama · Romance

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   Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: falling in love and star crossed lovers
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Purple Hearts

   Similar atmosphere

   2022 · 122 min · Drama · Romance

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   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.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era
   • similar audience response

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   Now Is Good

   Similar atmosphere

   2012 · 103 min · Drama · Romance

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   A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Princess Cyd

   Strong story similarity

   2017 · 96 min · Drama · Romance

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   High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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    Only You

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 119 min · Drama · Romance

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    A madly-in-love young couple's relationship begins to suffer when they struggle to conceive a child.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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