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Movies that feel likeCorpse Bride (2005)

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.

If you loved Corpse Bride, the closest films we have are White Snake (2019), Millennium Actress (2002) and The Lake House (2006). All three share Corpse Bride's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Painting (2011).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mike Johnsonromantictenderdreamlikewhimsical
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White Snake
2019 · dir. Amp Wong
🍅 70%★ 7romance · animation · fantasy

A supernatural romance crossing between worlds

The difference: Lush Chinese fantasy — earnest where Burton is macabre

One day a young woman named Blanca is saved by Xuan, a snake catcher from a nearby village. As they set off an a journey to discover her real identity, the pair develop feelings for each other.

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Millennium Actress
2002 · dir. Satoshi Kon
🍅 93%★ 7.8animation · drama · romanceMax

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

The difference: Easier on the whimsy than Corpse Bride

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not have imagined that it would not only unlock the long-held secrets of Chiyoko’s life... but also his own.

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The Lake House
2006 · dir. Alejandro Agresti
🍅 36%★ 6.8romance · drama · fantasy

Both lean on dream logic more than on romance

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

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The Time Traveler's Wife
2009 · dir. Robert Schwentke
🍅 38%★ 7.1drama · romance · fantasyParamount+

Fantasy built on romance, twice over

The difference: Takes it somewhere less whimsical than Corpse Bride does

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.

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The Princess and the Frog
2009 · dir. Ron Clements
🍅 86%★ 7.2animation · romance · fantasyDisney+

A marriage plot detoured through dark magic and music

The difference: Bright Disney warmth — the shadows are strictly borrowed

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.

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Meet Joe Black
1998 · dir. Martin Brest
🍅 48%★ 7.2fantasy · drama · romancePrime Video

Tender animation in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Corpse Bride does

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 Painting
2011 · dir. Jean-François Laguionie
🍅 82%★ 7.3fantasy · animation

A painted world with its own melancholy magic

The difference: French allegory about class and creation — cerebral, cool

Three characters living in an unfinished painting venture out into the real world in search of their creator to convince him to finish his work.

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Weathering with You
2019 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
🍅 92%★ 7.5animation · drama · fantasyMax

Dreamlike romance, and it commits to that

The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

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About Time
2013 · dir. Richard Curtis
🍅 70%★ 7.8drama · romance · fantasyNetflix

Fantasy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2008 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 72%★ 7.8drama · fantasy · romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on animation

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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The Age of Adaline
2015 · dir. Lee Toland Krieger
🍅 54%★ 7.2romance · fantasy · dramaMax

Romance built on dream logic, twice over

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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A Whisker Away
2020 · dir. Tomotaka Shibayama
🍅 93%★ 6.7animation · drama · romanceNetflix

Both play fantasy straight

A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

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