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Movies that feel likeThe Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.

If you loved The Time Traveler's Wife, the closest films we have are The Lake House (2006), The Age of Adaline (2015) and Before Midnight (2013). All three share The Time Traveler's Wife's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Wings of Desire (1987).

πŸ… 38% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Robert Schwentkecontemplativeromantictenderdreamlike
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The Lake House
2006 Β· dir. Alejandro Agresti
πŸ… 36%β˜… 6.8romance Β· drama Β· fantasy

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

When architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster. Their correspondence, only through the 'magical' mailbox, turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms.Β They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

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The Age of Adaline
2015 Β· dir. Lee Toland Krieger
πŸ… 54%β˜… 7.2romance Β· fantasy Β· dramaMax

One thread runs through both: love

After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

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Before Midnight
2013 Β· dir. Richard Linklater
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.9romance Β· dramaRent or buy

Tender where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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.

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About Time
2013 Β· dir. Richard Curtis
πŸ… 70%β˜… 7.8drama Β· romance Β· fantasyNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: time travel

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.

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Meet Joe Black
1998 Β· dir. Martin Brest
πŸ… 48%β˜… 7.2fantasy Β· drama Β· romancePrime Video

Contemplative drama in both cases

Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan?

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 Β· dir. David Fincher
πŸ… 72%β˜… 7.8drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: travel

Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

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Ruby Red
2013 Β· dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
β˜… 6fantasy Β· drama Β· romance

Common ground: time travel

On her 16th birthday, Gwendolyn Shepherd finds out that instead of her cousin, she has inherited a rare gene that allows her to travel through time.

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Beautiful Creatures
2013 Β· dir. Richard LaGravenese
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.1fantasy Β· drama Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: love

Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.

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Beastly
2011 Β· dir. Daniel Barnz
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.5romance Β· fantasy Β· dramaParamount+

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

A modern-day take on the "Beauty and the Beast" tale where a New York teen is transformed into a hideous monster in order to find true love.

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Wings of Desire
1987 Β· dir. Wim Wenders
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.9drama Β· fantasy Β· romanceMax

Fantasy built on tenderness, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds β€” with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk β€” that it might be possible for him to take human form.

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Mr. Nobody
2009 Β· dir. Jaco Van Dormael
πŸ… 64%β˜… 7.7science fiction Β· drama Β· romancePrime VideoHulu

Common ground in both: time and loving

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Time Traveler's Wife does

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

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πŸ… 49%β˜… 5.6fantasy Β· drama Β· romanceNetflix

Drama with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.

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