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Movies that feel like The Lake House (2006)

If you loved The Lake House, the closest films we have are Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Meet Joe Black (1998) and Beautiful Creatures (2013). All three share The Lake House's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

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.

🍅 35% Rotten Tomatoes6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro Agrestiromantictendercontemplativedreamlike

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

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Meet Joe Black
1998 · dir. Martin Brest
🍅 48%7.2fantasy · drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: doctor

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

Contemplative where it counts, dreamlike underneath

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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Ruby Red
2013 · dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
6fantasy · drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

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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Sapphire Blue
2014 · dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
6.1fantasy · romance · drama

Both lean on tenderness more than on drama

Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.

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

Fantasy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Revolutionary Road
2008 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 67%7.3drama · romance

Dreamlike romance in both cases

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

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

Drama built on romance, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to animation than The Lake House does

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

Tender fantasy in both cases

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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Before Midnight
2013 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 98%7.9romance · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

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

Drama built on dream logic, twice over

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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Sidewalls
2011 · dir. Gustavo Taretto
🍅 70%7.5drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: architecture

The difference: None of the dream logic The Lake House is built on

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

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