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Movies like Blue Valentine

Not everyone loves Blue Valentine for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Blue Valentine

Read them all. One will sound more like you than the others.

  1. You like Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real.

  2. You like watching two people slowly stop understanding each other.

  3. You can take a love story that ends in pieces.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

Tick them here or with “That’s me” above. The picks re-sort by how many of your reasons they share.

  • Revolutionary Road2008

    • Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real
    • watching two people slowly stop understanding each other
    • a love story that ends in pieces

    Good for you if you like Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio tearing into each other.

  • The Reader2008

    • Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real
    • watching two people slowly stop understanding each other

    Good for you if you like Kate Winslet as a woman hard to love and hard to judge.

  • The Wrestler2008

    • Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real
    • watching two people slowly stop understanding each other

    Good for you if you want Mickey Rourke giving everything as Randy the Ram.

  • Big Little Lies2017

    • Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real
    • watching two people slowly stop understanding each other

    Good for you if you like Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern at full force.

  • Melancholia2011

    • a love story that ends in pieces

    Good for you if you can take a film that looks the end of the world in the face.

  • American History X1998

    • Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real
    • watching two people slowly stop understanding each other
    • a love story that ends in pieces

    Good for you if you like a lead performance that's terrifying and then human.

  • Million Dollar Baby2004

    • Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real
    • watching two people slowly stop understanding each other

    Good for you if you like quiet, deep performances.

  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape1993

    • Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real
    • watching two people slowly stop understanding each other

    Good for you if you like small-town people drawn with care.

  • Blue Is the Warmest Color2013

    • Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling making a marriage feel real
    • watching two people slowly stop understanding each other

    Good for you if you like faces filmed so close you feel every emotion.

Reasons taken from Blue Valentine's card. Picks from the Ipsomap catalogue. This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.

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