The match
The Tearsmith
2024Italy★ 6.5subtitled
Adopted together after a tough childhood in an orphanage, Nica and Rigel realize that unexpected but irresistible feelings pull them together.
Your matches
The Notebook, but for the lingering melancholy
2 foreign films carry this hook with the same weight as The Notebook. All confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
If you want a second one
Be With You
2018South Korea★ 8.2subtitled
Along with his young son, Ji-ho, Woo-jin misses his wife Soo-a, who died after promising to return a year later with the rainy season. Miraculously, they reunite with Soo-a when the rainy season comes around, but she has no memory of her husband and son whom she dearly loved.
See 10 more good (not elite) matches
These are real matches, confirmed English availability and all — just not as strong an overlap as the picks above.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974Germany★ 7.7subtitled
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019France★ 8.1subtitled
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Always
2011South Korea★ 7.8subtitled
A former boxer turned parking lot attendant finds hope in the love of the blind telemarketer who walks into his booth one day.
A Werewolf Boy
2012South Korea★ 7.7subtitled
An unexpected phone call brings an elderly woman to her childhood country cottage, and memories of an orphan boy she knew 47 years ago come flooding back to her.
Summer of 85
2020France★ 7.4subtitled
What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
Cold War
2018Poland★ 7.4subtitled
A man and a woman meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatally mismatched and yet drawn to each other.
The House of the Spirits
1993Germany★ 6.9subtitled
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Atonement
2007UK★ 7.6subtitled
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.
Tune in for Love
2019South Korea★ 7.7subtitled
During the 1990s, hardworking Mi-soo and optimistic Hyun-woo meet at a bakery and fall in love while exchanging stories on a radio station, but while their paths keep crossing, the timing never seems to work out.
The Big Blue
1988France★ 7.5subtitled
Childhood friends Jacques and Enzo share a passion for the danger of free diving. Jacques, following in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy, harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing patterns in the water, with his vital signs more closely resembling those of dolphins than men.