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10 Best Movies Like The Notebook

If you loved The Notebook, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Mean Girls

Mean Girls

2004★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Notebook for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina ...

#2
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2012★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Notebook for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, b...

#3
The Vow

The Vow

2012★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Notebook for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memor...

#4
Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain

2005★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Notebook for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families o...

#5
A Walk to Remember

A Walk to Remember

2002★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Notebook for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie h...

#6
Dear John

Dear John

2010★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Notebook for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eve...