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10 Best Movies Like By the Sea

If you loved By the Sea, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fanny

Fanny

1961★ 6.7

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

Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5...

#2
Third Person

Third Person

2014★ 5.9

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

An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship....

#3
The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris

1954★ 6.2

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

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen ...

#4
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

1923★ 6.8

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

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealt...

#5
Empire of Light

Empire of Light

2022★ 6.6

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

The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s....

#6
Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

1995★ 7.3

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

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy ...

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