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Movies that feel likeEdward Scissorhands (1990)

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

If you loved Edward Scissorhands, the closest films we have are The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Scenes from a Marriage (1974) and God's Own Country (2017). All three share Edward Scissorhands' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Marty (1955).

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947 · dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
🍅 100%★ 7.8romance · fantasy · drama

An impossible bond between a lonely soul and someone not quite of this world

The difference: Old-Hollywood restraint — wistful and talky, nothing visually strange

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

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Scenes from a Marriage
1974 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
★ 8.3drama · romanceMax

Loneliness inside intimacy, examined with unbearable tenderness

The difference: Bergman's forensic realism — long, wordy and unsparing, no fable

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

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God's Own Country
2017 · dir. Francis Lee
🍅 97%★ 7.6romance · drama

An isolated outsider slowly thawed by someone patient enough to see him

The difference: Blunt rural realism — mud and silence where Burton paints in pastel

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

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

An otherworldly innocent loose among ordinary people, learning to feel

The difference: Slow, plush and adult, with no gothic strangeness and no suburb to mock

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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Wings of Desire
1987 · dir. Wim Wenders
🍅 95%★ 7.9drama · fantasy · romanceMax

A gentle being watches human life from the outside, aching to join it

The difference: A meandering art film — Berlin poetry and patience, little plot to hold

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 — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.

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Big Fish
2003 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 76%★ 8adventure · fantasy · drama

Burton at his most tender, telling tall tales to hold off sadness

The difference: Big, roaming and paternal, with warmth where the source has ache

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

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Everything, Everything
2017 · dir. Stella Meghie
🍅 45%★ 6.3drama · romance

Sheltered from the world, reached through a window by first love

The difference: Glossy YA romance — sweet but thin, without the melancholy

A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.

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Nostalgia
1983 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 89%★ 7.9drama · romance

The same mix in both: dream logic, then stillness

The difference: Easier on the comfort than Edward Scissorhands

Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.

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Marty
1955 · dir. Delbert Mann
🍅 96%★ 7.7drama · romancePrime Video

Romantic and tender in the same breath

The difference: 35 years apart, and the 1950s show

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.

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

A life shaped by one impossible condition, and the love it cannot hold

The difference: Sprawling and stately, decades wide where the source is one street

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 Bridges of Madison County
1995 · dir. Clint Eastwood
🍅 90%★ 7.6drama · romance

A brief, impossible love that leaves a permanent mark on a quiet life

The difference: Grounded Midwestern realism — no fantasy, no fable, just two adults

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.

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My Blueberry Nights
2007 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 45%★ 6.6drama · romancePrime VideoStarz

Drama with a pulse of loneliness, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

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