Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013France★ 7.15.5 pt match
Both films sit with all-consuming love, loss of innocence, and longing. Both circle the same ground: family wounds passed down. The feel is the same: melancholic, warm, slow burn, and episodic.
The Fault in Our Stars
2014USALanguage: EnglishDirected by Josh Boone★ 7.6
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.
Themes and style
Tone
melancholichopefulwarmquietly devastating
Pacing
slow burnepisodicescalating
Story
journeyunravelingreunion
Emotion
griefall-consuming loveloss of innocencelongingfeeling powerlesslonging
Themes
family dutyfamily wounds passed downfamily duty
Feel
emotionally wreckingcatharticgut punchcrowd pleaserquietly haunting
Violence
noneWhere to watch
Foreign films like The Fault in Our Stars
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as The Fault in Our Stars. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
The Tearsmith
2024Italy★ 6.55.5 pt match
What ties these together is longing, all-consuming love, and loss of innocence. They share the same lens on family wounds passed down and family duty. The feel is the same: melancholic, warm, slow burn, and escalating.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019France★ 8.14.5 pt match
What ties these together is all-consuming love, longing, and loss of innocence. Both circle the same ground: family duty and family wounds passed down. The feel is the same: melancholic, warm, and slow burn.
Summer of 85
2020France★ 7.44.5 pt match
What ties these together is all-consuming love, loss of innocence, and grief. The world both films live in revolves around family wounds passed down. The feel is the same: melancholic, warm, slow burn, and escalating.
Be With You
2018South Korea★ 8.24 pt match
Both films sit with grief, all-consuming love, and longing. The world both films live in revolves around family duty and family wounds passed down. The feel is the same: melancholic, warm, slow burn, and episodic.
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
1996Hong Kong★ 7.94 pt match
Tag overlap with The Fault in Our Stars across multiple dimensions.
Cold War
2018Poland★ 7.44 pt match
Tag overlap with The Fault in Our Stars across multiple dimensions.
A Werewolf Boy
2012South Korea★ 7.73.5 pt match
Both films sit with longing, all-consuming love, and loss of innocence. The world both films live in revolves around family wounds passed down and family duty. Both move the same way too, melancholic, warm, slow burn, and escalating.