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10 Best Movies Like A Very Long Engagement

If you loved A Very Long Engagement, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray

2001★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Very Long Engagement for fans of Drama & Romance & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in...

#2
The Lovers on the Bridge

The Lovers on the Bridge

1991★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Very Long Engagement for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted t...

#3
Frantic

Frantic

1988★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Very Long Engagement for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and...

#4
The Officers' Ward

The Officers' Ward

2001★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Very Long Engagement for fans of Drama & Romance & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five lon...

#5
Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

1988★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Very Long Engagement for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet t...

#6
Harrison's Flowers

Harrison's Flowers

2000★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Very Long Engagement for fans of Drama & Romance & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

1991. Harrison Lloyd, a renowned photojournalist covering the war in Yugoslavia, is reported missing. Sarah, his wife, convinced that he is not dead, decides to go to Bosnia to fin...

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