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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   Life in a Year

   Similar atmosphere

   2020 · 107 min · Drama · Romance

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   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.

   Why it connects

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

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   Endless Love

   Strong story similarity

   2014 · 104 min · Drama · Romance

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   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.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • 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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   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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   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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   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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   The Best of Me

   Similar atmosphere

   2014 · 117 min · Drama · Romance

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

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Me Before You

   Similar atmosphere

   2016 · 110 min · Drama · Romance

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   Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.

   Why it connects

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

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    Love, Rosie

    Strong story similarity

    2014 · 102 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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    Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more?

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • similar audience response

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