Movies like Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven (2002) is a romance movie directed by Todd Haynes. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Revolutionary Road (2008)
★ 7.0 · 4,227 votes · Drama, Romance
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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2. Little Children (2006)
★ 7.1 · 1,211 votes · Drama, Romance
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
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3. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
★ 7.7 · 2,455 votes · Drama, Romance
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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4. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
★ 7.3 · 355 votes · Drama, Romance
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
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5. Love, Simon (2018)
★ 8.0 · 6,357 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
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6. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
★ 7.8 · 7,769 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
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7. Loving (2016)
★ 6.7 · 983 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1958, in the state of Virginia, the idea of interracial marriage was not only considered to be immoral to many, it was also illegal. When Richard and Mildred fall in love, they are aware of the eyes staring at them and the words said behind their backs. It's when they get married, however, that words and looks become actions, and the two are arrested. The couple decide to take their case all of the way to the Supreme Court in order to fight for their love. Based on a true story.
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8. Brooklyn (2015)
★ 7.3 · 3,333 votes · Drama, History, Romance
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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9. The Theory of Everything (2014)
★ 7.8 · 11,321 votes · Drama, Romance
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.
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10. Phantom Thread (2017)
★ 7.3 · 3,893 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
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11. Carol (2015)
★ 7.5 · 4,055 votes · Romance, Drama
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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12. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
★ 7.8 · 937 votes · Drama, Romance
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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13. The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
★ 7.4 · 687 votes · Drama, Romance
A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
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14. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
★ 7.3 · 502 votes · Drama, Romance
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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15. Days of Heaven (1978)
★ 7.5 · 1,218 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
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16. Mansfield Park (1999)
★ 6.7 · 348 votes · Romance, Drama
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
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