Before Sunrise
Why this pick
A chance meeting becomes an unhurried night of walking, talking, teasing, and growing intimacy; its romantic charge comes from conversation and a city after dark.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
A chance meeting becomes an unhurried night of walking, talking, teasing, and growing intimacy; its romantic charge comes from conversation and a city after dark.
Why this pick
Its Hong Kong streets, intimate pauses, and restrained attraction offer a more wistful, visually sumptuous variation on a connection complicated by existing relationships.
Why this pick
Two displaced Americans form an understated bond in an electric Asian city, balancing late-night wandering, dry humor, and the tenderness of a brief encounter.
Why this pick
A gentle urban romance built through small exchanges rather than grand gestures, with lonely adults finding possibility amid the routines and crowds of a major city.
Why this pick
Captures the same playful, conversational chemistry and frustrating timing, following two people whose easy rapport keeps colliding with inconvenient romantic realities.
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01 / THE STORY
Outside a bar Ruby (Jamie Chung), an American children's toy designer temporarily in Hong Kong makes plans over her phone to meet her friends at another bar. Overhearing that her phone doesn't have GPS and she is lost, American expat Josh (Bryan Greenberg) offers to walk her to her destination. As they walk and talk they find a connection sparking between them. Josh tells Ruby that he works in finance but longs to be a writer and she encourages him to quit his job to write a novel. Once they reach the location where Ruby is supposed to meet her friends Ruby offers to blow them off to get a drink with Josh. At the bar he confesses to Ruby that he has a girlfriend and the reason he was outside the bar and overheard Ruby's conversation was because he had left his girlfriend inside doing birthday shots and flirting with other men. Ruby is infuriated and leaves Josh.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Fortune Teller

Ruby

Josh
Taxi driver