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Plot Summary:
When Liang Xia's obsession for a perfect wedding puts a strain in the relationship with her fiancé, he ultimately calls it quits and breaks up with her. In a heartbroken state, Liang Xia carelessly ingests a magical item, which transports the 28-year-old’s mind back to when she was only seventeen years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ghost of the Mirror (1974)
Plot Summary:
A scholar falls in love with a beautiful girl, who may or may not be a ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Journey to the Shore (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mizuki’s husband Yusuke went missing for 3 years. He suddenly comes back home one day and asks Mizuki to go on a trip with him. Their trip consists of visiting the people that helped Yusuke on his previous travel. While travelling together, Misuki sees, touches and feels what Yusuke did for those 3 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, exciting, sincere, melancholic, romantic, romantic drama
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History of Cinema in Popielawy (1998)
Plot Summary:
The story is narrated by ten-year old Staszek, who writes in his diary about his school-friend Jozef. Jozef comes from a family of blacksmiths, all of whom bear the name Jozef. Since he is the sixth consecutive son to be called Jozef, he is nicknamed Szustek (meaning "sixth one").
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: family saga
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Random Love Story (1974)
Plot Summary:
This 50-minutes long TV production, Wiszniewski's only feature film, is the story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags:
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Rip in Time (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sarah is an organic farmer who meets a man named Rip Van Winkle Jr., who claims to be from 1787. Soon, she discovers old-fashioned romantic feelings that might be just as crazy as his story.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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My Mother, the Mermaid (2004)
Plot Summary:
Na-young works at a post office and is sick and tired of being around her shamefully unyielding mother and her pushover father who's excessively nice. The only thing that she can look forward to is her trip abroad in a few days. But one day, her father leaves home without any notice. Her mother doesn't care what happens to him and doesn't care to look for him. Na-young has no choice but to give up her dream trip abroad and to search for her father instead. Once she arrives at her parents' hometown, Na-young is shocked to meet someone she'd never expect, even in her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: mind twisting, romantic, captivating, mind bending, touching, entertaining
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Back to Christmas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Saddened about spending another Christmas alone, Ali meets Ginny, a quirky and spunky woman, at a diner on Christmas Eve. Ali tells Ginny that she was to be married on New Year's Eve last year, but over the course of the holidays she and her fiancé unexpectedly split. When Ali explains that she would do everything differently if she could go back in time, Ginny tells her that "sometimes people do get second chances." The following morning, Ali wakes up to find herself transported back to that Christmas before her planned wedding. While she sets out to avoid the mistakes of her past, she learns that changing the course of history is no easy task.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Someday or One Day (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 2009, 28-year-old Li Zi Wei and 17-year-old Huang Yu Xuan met each other. Two innocent and unaffected lives that could each feel marks like ones of their past and present lives. However, they could not find sufficient proof to fill up the emptiness at the bottom of their hearts. An accident let them fall into another Mobius loop that had already happened countless times. Only then did they realize that in different times and spaces, they once had a deep, true love that had passed through countless timelines to search for each other with no regrets. But in that story, their deepest love came at the highest price. If they could start again, would they choose to meet by chance in ordinary life or be scarred by the memories etched in their heart and bones? Or perhaps they can choose to hurt and love all over again, betting on a different ending? based on someday or one day (2019).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday (2016)
Plot Summary:
Takatoshi Minamiyama (Sota Fukushi) majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju (Nana Komatsu) and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage, he speaks to her. They begin to date and enjoy happy days together, but Emi reveals her secret to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, sentimental, light, romantic, emotional, sad, mind blowing, romantic drama, crying
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Time after Time (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young journalist returns home to work in the local newspaper. There again see his girlfriend, who is now engaged. For her, this reunion will be a great emotional impact.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, entertaining
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The Magician (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Princess in the Joseon Dynasty travels to the Qing Dynasty to marry. On the way to there, she meets a young magician and falls in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, serious, captivating
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Christmas Comes Twice (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Cheryl visits the Christmas carnival in her hometown, she gets a second chance in life when she is transported to Christmas five years in the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous
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The White Snake: A Love Affair (2021)
Plot Summary:
The two sisters of Lingshe Mountain - White Snake and Green Snake - devoted themselves to cultivating of immortality. The White Snake was in danger during the tribulation. Fortunately, Xu Xian, who went to the mountain to search for medicine, rescued her. In a dream White Snake learns the words of the poem "Enter the world, know the warmth and the cold" and enters the city in search of a cause. The Great Demon King of the Yin Division coveted the White Snake's pearl for nearly a thousand years. Knowing that the White Snake is alive, he sent his subordinate judges to seal the city for her search. White Snake meets Xu Xian and cures his classmate Gao Jin's critically ill father. When he finds out that the White Snake is a demon, he tells the Underworld that he will take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Mandorla (2015)
Plot Summary:
The only journey is the one within. Mandorla explores a man's search for a meaningful life despite conflicts between his inner and outer worlds. Ernesto is a visual artist and seeker stuck in a corporate job, who is drawn by dark magical visions to a medieval French city. There he seeks an elusive banker to help him unlock an obscure dream that threatens his job, family, and sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spiritual, experimental
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Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going (1995)
Plot Summary:
It is the fantastic story of Leopoldo, a lonely film projectionist who has invented a machine to record his dreams. Through a series of odd events, Leopoldo discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: spiritual, manga, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, crying, mystical
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Time of Her Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two ghosts, separated by time, who have roamed the grounds of a historic English mansion, searching for each other are brought together by Ally (LAURA PENNEYCARD), a photography student who is experiencing dreams she can't explain and Emmett (GEOFF SHAW), the son of a wealthy industrialist. Emmett befriends Ally and together they unravel the truth behind the disappearance of his long lost love, Catherine a beautiful servant girl. However, Ally must first overcome her fears of his ghostly appearance before she can help Emmett find Catherine and reunite their love. Shot in the beautiful location of Hylands House, this lavish drama with a supernatural theme, leads you through past and present in a series of spine-chilling nightmares, ghostly appearances and suspenseful chase sequences, which moves into a beautiful romance tale, drawing on all your senses from the outset.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, period drama
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Heaven Sent (2016)
Plot Summary:
As Christmas approaches, the end is near for Billy and Marie's marriage until an eight-year-old runaway angel from heaven takes it upon herself to rekindle the love they once shared.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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A Mrs. Miracle Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a family faces loneliness and loss of faith, Mrs. Miracle swoops in to renew their Christmas Spirit, and they experience a holiday of heavenly proportions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Fetching Cody (2005)
Plot Summary:
Art, a drug-addicted dealer and hustler, arrives at his girlfriend Cody's apartment to find that she has overdosed on heroin. He tries to fix things by traveling back in time in an attempt to prevent her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, offbeat, humorous, independent film, dark comedy
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Julia and Julia (1987)
Plot Summary:
Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably finds herself sliding in time between two different worlds where in one she is still struggling with her grief over Paolo's death, and in the other world she is married to Paolo who's alive and well with their five year old son, where Julia is having an affair with a British gentleman named Daniel, in which the frequent supernatural sliding between these two worlds threaten to drive Julia crazy when she begins having difficulty in telling them apart and learning which world she is currently living in.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, sexy, serious, tense, rough, realistic, independent film, sexual
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Will You Be There? (2016)
Plot Summary:
Soo-hyun comes across magical pills that allow him to go back and forth in time. 30 years to the past, young Soo-hyun meets future Soo-hyun and learns that his girlfriend will soon die because of him. In order to save her, the two Soo-hyuns try to change the past together, but a completely new and unexpected past is formed that leads to a new future.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, sincere, touching, sweet, mind blowing
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Mara and the Firebringer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mara Lorbeer, a fifteen year old girl, finds out that she has to save the world because the Norse god Loki is threatening to break free of his chains.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, saga, visually appealing
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Love and Destiny (2019)
Plot Summary:
A love story between the God of War and a young maiden whose very existence can bring harm to the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, xianxia, mystical, entertaining
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Before You Say 'I Do' (2009)
Plot Summary:
George Murray's fiancée Jane Gardner gets cold feet after accepting his ring, terrorized by her first wedding with Doug, who cheated that very day with their wedding coordinator. After a car crash, George finds himself 10 years in the past, just days before Doug's day.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, sex comedy
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Insatiable Wives (2000)
Plot Summary:
Donna is unfulfilled. In an unsatisfying marriage, Donna finds herself fantasizing about her sultry friends' lovers.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy, sexploitation film
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Tonight You're Sleeping with Me (2023)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a passionless marriage, a journalist must choose between her distant but loving husband and a younger ex-boyfriend who has reentered her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Earth (1996)
Plot Summary:
Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deseased townspeople?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: erotic, art house, hispanic, humorous, realistic, surreal, contemplative, semi serious, manga, weird
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Somewhere in Time (1980)
Plot Summary:
Young writer, Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to, "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, he manages – by self-hypnosis – to travel back in time where he meets her. They fall in love, a matching that is not appreciated by her manager. Can their love outlast the immense problems caused by their 'time" difference, and can Richard remain in a time that is not his?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, heartbreaking, period piece, sweet, light, emotional, stylized
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Il Mare (2000)
Plot Summary:
Eun-joo moves out of her house "Il Mare", leaving behind a Christmas card for the eventual new owner of the house in 1999. In it she asks him/her to forward any mail of hers to her new address in the city. It is 1997 and Sung-hyun, the first owner of "Il Mare" is moving in and finds in his mailbox the Christmas card from Eun-joo. Thinking it was a joke, Sung-hyun leaves her a letter telling her so and reminds her that its 1997 not 1999. Eventually the two realize that they are separated by two years of time but can somehow communicate through the mailbox and begin to form a friendship through their letters.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, mind twisting, psychological thriller, romantic, touching, sincere, mind bending, sweet, dark
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Plot Summary:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 516000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, fairy tale, surreal, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, dark fantasy, sad, visually stunning, visual