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Movies that feel like Ruby Red (2013)

If you loved Ruby Red, the closest films we have are Beastly (2011), The Man from the Future (2011) and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006). All three share Ruby Red's dreamlike and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Sapphire Blue (2014) · Emerald Green (2016)

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Beastly
2011 · dir. Daniel Barnz
🍅 20%5.5romance · fantasy · drama

One thread runs through both: teenage romance

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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The Man from the Future
2011 · dir. Cláudio Torres
7comedy · fantasy · science fiction

Common ground: time travel

The difference: None of the stillness Ruby Red is built on

Zero is a brilliant scientist. However, 20 years ago, he was publicly humiliated when he lost Helena, the love of his life. One day, an accidental experience with one of his inventions causes him to travel back in time to 1991. Having taken the opportunity to change history, Zero returns to own time to find totally changed.

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2006 · dir. Mamoru Hosoda
🍅 87%7.6fantasy · animation · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: time travel

The difference: Missing the tenderness of Ruby Red

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

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Beautiful Creatures
2013 · dir. Richard LaGravenese
🍅 47%6.1fantasy · drama · romance

The same mix in both: dream logic, then stillness

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

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

The difference: Sits closer to animation than Ruby Red does

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

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

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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I Am Dragon
2015 · dir. Indar Dzhendubaev
6.8fantasy · romance

Romantic romance in both cases

In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. Mira left everything behind in the past - family, friends and groom. Now the only things she had were a stone cage and a mysterious young man named Arman ... but who is he and what is he doing on that island? Miroslava will know the truth too late: loving a dragon will reveal the bitter truth - love is scary.

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Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 · dir. Jim Jarmusch
🍅 86%7.2drama · romance · fantasy

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, already played over several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

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After
2019 · dir. Jenny Gage
🍅 18%5.3drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: teenage romance

Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.

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

Tender drama, and it commits to that

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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Beauty and the Beast
2014 · dir. Christophe Gans
🍅 41%6.4fantasy · romance

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it chills the bone to the marrow. There, a fate worse than death awaits the poor father-of-six, who, after plucking a sweet-scented rose from the repulsive master's verdant garden, must do the impossible: permit his compassionate daughter, Belle, to take his place and pay for the sins of her parent. Now, an impenetrable mystery shrouds the haunted mansion, and, as repugnance gradually turns into affection, only true love could break the spell.

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The Lake House
2006 · dir. Alejandro Agresti
🍅 35%6.8romance · drama · fantasy

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

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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