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Movies that feel likeThe Lovely Bones (2009)

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

If you loved The Lovely Bones, the closest films we have are Before I Fall (2017), Frailty (2002) and What Dreams May Come (1998). All three share The Lovely Bones' dreamlike and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lilting (2014).

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Before I Fall
2017 Β· dir. Ry Russo-Young
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.4drama Β· fantasyStarz

Both land dream logic and stillness at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

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Frailty
2002 Β· dir. Bill Paxton
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7.2drama Β· thriller Β· crime

Both are built on the same subject: grief

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than The Lovely Bones does

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

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What Dreams May Come
1998 Β· dir. Vincent Ward
πŸ… 51%β˜… 7drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: afterlife

The difference: Easier on the grit than The Lovely Bones

After Chris Nielsen dies in a car accident, he is guided through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Albert. His new world is beautiful and can be whatever Chris imagines. Even his children are there. But, when his wife, Annie, commits suicide and is sent to hell, Chris ignores Albert's warnings and journeys there to save her. Upon arrival, Chris finds that rescuing Annie will be more difficult than he'd imagined.

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Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 Β· dir. Jim Jarmusch
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance Β· fantasy

The same mix in both: melancholy, then romance

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Lovely Bones does

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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A Ghost Story
2017 Β· dir. David Lowery
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.8drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

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Rachel Getting Married
2008 Β· dir. Jonathan Demme
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.6dramaNetflix

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

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City of Angels
1998 Β· dir. Brad Silberling
β˜… 6.7drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Common ground: afterlife

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.

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Lilting
2014 Β· dir. Hong Khaou
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.2drama

One thread runs through both: grief

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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Melancholia
2011 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.1drama Β· science fiction

Melancholy drama, and it commits to that

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

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Short Term 12
2013 Β· dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.9dramaPrime Video

Gritty fantasy in both cases

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

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Remember Me
2010 Β· dir. Allen Coulter
πŸ… 26%β˜… 7.1drama Β· romancePeacock

Two things both keep coming back to: melancholy and grieving

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

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πŸ… 94%β˜… 8.5documentary Β· crimePrime Video

Fantasy with a pulse of grit, in both cases

In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.

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