Movies Like Before Sunset (2004)

Before Sunset is a 2004 drama, romance film from Richard Linklater with a MovieMagicScore of 7.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Before Sunrise and Before Midnight.

Drama Romance

Before Sunrise

1995

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

8.0

MagicScore

Before Midnight

2013

It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

7.5

MagicScore

Forget Me Not

2011

The film follows Will Fletcher, a musician, and Eve Fisher, who works in a pub where he is performing, during one night in London. After Will has saved Eve from a drunken customer at closing time, they stay up all night together, meandering through the streets of London and forging a relationship. Next morning, Eve takes him to see her Alzheimer's-suffering grandmother. The film is often compared to Richard Linklater's films "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset", as the style is very similar.

5.4

MagicScore

2046

2004

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

7.2

MagicScore

The Notebook

2004

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

7.9

MagicScore

Life Is Beautiful

1997

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

8.4

MagicScore

Youth Without Youth

2007

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

6.1

MagicScore

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

7.8

MagicScore

Love on the Run

1979

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.

7.0

MagicScore

#10

Iris

2001

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

A Bookshop in Paris

2021

Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her a few years earlier. One day Yolande, an exuberant, eccentric, funny and beautiful girl, bursts into Vincenzo’s shop. Charmed by her vital energy, the man starts feeling again emotions he’s been chocking-off for too long, and which will make him question his melancholic and somehow suspended way of facing life.

5.5

MagicScore

#12

Heartburn

1986

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.

6.0

MagicScore

#13

Sleepless in Seattle

1993

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness soon leads to a meeting with a young female journalist, who has flown to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his father.

6.7

MagicScore

#14

The Cousins

1959

Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.

6.8

MagicScore

#15

A River Runs Through It

1992

The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.

7.0

MagicScore

#16

The End of the Tour

2015

The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

7.0

MagicScore

#17

Down with Love

2003

In 1962 New York City, love blossoms between a playboy journalist and a feminist advice author.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

Shall We Kiss?

2007

When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.

6.1

MagicScore

#19

The Man Who Loved Women

1977

At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

7.1

MagicScore

#20

Not Here to Be Loved

2005

Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long time ago the idea that life could give him pleasures. Until the day, he dares to push the doors of a tango lesson...

6.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Before Sunset?

The top films similar to Before Sunset by MovieMagicScore are Before Sunrise (8.0), Before Midnight (7.5), Forget Me Not (5.4). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Before Sunset worth watching?

Before Sunset holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.8/10 from 3,605 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Before Sunset?

Before Sunset (2004) is a drama, romance film directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff.

Where can I find more recommendations like Before Sunset?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Before Sunset

This ranked list pairs Before Sunset (2004), a drama and romance film from Richard Linklater, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Ethan Hawke take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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