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Movies that feel likeTwilight (2008)

When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't stay away from him, a fatal move that endangers her own life.

If you loved Twilight, the closest films we have are The Age of Adaline (2015), The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) and About Time (2013). All three share Twilight's dreamlike and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Wings of Desire (1987).

🍅 48% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Catherine Hardwickedreamlikecontemplativeromantictender
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) · The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011) · The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)

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

Loving someone whose clock runs differently from yours

The difference: Adult and composed — no teenage vertigo, no danger in the room

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

Loving someone whose very nature keeps pulling him away

The difference: Adult marriage and grief — no high school, more tears

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

Soulmate certainty treated as the central fact of a life

The difference: Warm and comic — family and daily life, no gothic longing

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

An impossible love sustained across a gap that can't be crossed

The difference: Grown-up yearning by mailbox — gentle, slow and chaste

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

Romance shaped by time pulling two people out of step

The difference: Elegiac and lifelong — sorrow of decades, not first-love intensity

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 Shape of Water
2017 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 92%★ 7.3drama · fantasy · romanceMax

Desire for something not human, filmed as tender rather than strange

The difference: Adult and political — grown-up appetite, no high-school ache

An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.

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Beastly
2011 · dir. Daniel Barnz
🍅 20%★ 5.5romance · fantasy · dramaParamount+

A cursed boy, an ordinary girl and love as the transformation

The difference: A flimsy fairy-tale retread — the swoon is skin-deep

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

Small-town teens falling for someone with a dangerous secret

The difference: Southern-gothic witchery — campier and more knowing

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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Sapphire Blue
2014 · dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
★ 6.2fantasy · romance · drama

A destined teen romance tangled in a hidden supernatural order

The difference: German YA time travel — mid-series entry with a modest budget

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

A mortal drawn to a beautiful visitor who should not want them

The difference: Stately and slow — middle-aged mortality, not teenage obsession

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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Before Midnight
2013 · dir. Richard Linklater
🍅 98%★ 7.9romance · dramaRent or buy

The same mix in both: dream logic, then stillness

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

The same preoccupation in both: immortality

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

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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