Movies like Dying Young
Dying Young (1991) is a romance movie directed by Joel Schumacher. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Meet Joe Black (1998)
★ 7.4 · 5,999 votes · Fantasy, Drama, Romance
Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan?
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2. Harold and Maude (1971)
★ 7.6 · 1,255 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
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3. Atonement (2007)
★ 7.6 · 4,869 votes · Drama, Romance
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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4. Notting Hill (1999)
★ 7.3 · 6,933 votes · Romance, Comedy
London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.
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5. Five Feet Apart (2019)
★ 8.2 · 6,003 votes · Romance, Drama
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.
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6. The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
★ 7.6 · 11,745 votes · Romance, Drama
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.
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7. A Walk to Remember (2002)
★ 7.7 · 4,357 votes · Drama, Romance
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.
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8. Me Before You (2016)
★ 7.9 · 13,659 votes · Drama, Romance
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.
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9. Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
★ 6.6 · 425 votes · Drama, Romance
In 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 to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
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10. We Live in Time (2024)
★ 7.2 · 1,419 votes · Romance, Drama
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
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11. Love Story (1970)
★ 6.8 · 763 votes · Romance, Drama
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.
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12. Life in a Year (2020)
★ 8.2 · 2,012 votes · Drama, 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.
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13. Sweet November (2001)
★ 6.9 · 1,511 votes · Drama, Romance
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.
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14. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
★ 7.6 · 1,326 votes · Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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15. The Leisure Seeker (2018)
★ 7.1 · 504 votes · Drama, Romance, Adventure
A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.
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16. Purple Hearts (2022)
★ 8.0 · 2,961 votes · Romance, 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.
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