Movies like The Big Blue: 20 to watch next
If you loved The Big Blue (1988) — a romance, adventure and drama film directed by Luc Besson — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of The Big Blue most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like dying and death, friendship and suicide. 9 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Restless 2011★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Romance
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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One True Thing 1998★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Romance
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Charlie St. Cloud 2010★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Romance
Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. After high school classmate Tess returns home unexpectedly, Charlie grows torn between honoring a promise he made four years earlier and moving forward with newfound love. As he finds the courage to let go of the past for good, Charlie discovers the soul most worth saving is his own.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Top Gun 1986★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, Romance
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Angel Eyes 2001★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Romance
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Collateral Beauty 2016★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Adrift 2018★ 6.8
Shares: Romance, Adventure
Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope of rescue, Tami must now find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.
Stream in India on Zee5
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City of Angels 1998★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Romance
When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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P.S. I Love You 2007★ 7.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Love in the Time of Cholera 2007★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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We Live in Time 2024★ 7.2
Shares: Romance, Drama
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her 2014★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Romance
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Ordinary Love 2019★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Romance
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Atlantics 2019★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Romance
Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Sometimes a Great Notion 1971★ 6.9
Shares: Adventure, Drama
Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The In Between 2022★ 7.3
Shares: Romance, Drama
After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Moonlight Mile 2002★ 6.3
Shares: Romance, Drama
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Life in a Year 2020★ 8.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Stream in India on Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding 2003★ 6.0
Shares: Drama, Adventure
Mitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden who died years ago.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Titanic 1953★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now