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Movies that feel like When We First Met (2018)

If you loved When We First Met, the closest films we have are The Man from the Future (2011), The Mermaid (2016) and Ruby Red (2013). All three share When We First Met'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.

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

🍅 45% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ari Sandelwittyplayfulromantictenderdreamlike
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The Man from the Future
2011 · dir. Cláudio Torres
7comedy · fantasy · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: time travel

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than When We First Met does

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 Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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

Common ground: time travel

The difference: Missing the wit of When We First Met

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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The Invention of Lying
2009 · dir. Ricky Gervais
🍅 56%6.4comedy · fantasy · romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

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Lulli
2021 · dir. César Rodrigues
4.9comedy · romance · fantasy

Comedy built on dream logic, twice over

After getting electrocuted by an MRI machine, an ambitious young medical student begins to hear the thoughts of others.

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

Both lean on romance more than on romance

The difference: None of the wit When We First Met is built on

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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Café Society
2016 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 70%6.6comedy · drama · romance

One thread runs through both: unrequited love

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

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17 Again
2009 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 57%6.4comedy · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: do over

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.

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Practical Magic
1998 · dir. Griffin Dunne
🍅 28%6.4romance · fantasy · comedy

Witty fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

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Palm Springs
2020 · dir. Max Barbakow
🍅 95%7.4comedy · romance · science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: time loop

When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.

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A Whisker Away
2020 · dir. Junichi Sato
🍅 93%6.7animation · drama · romance

Another one that scratches it

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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Swiss Army Man
2016 · dir. Daniel Kwan
🍅 73%6.9comedy · drama · romance

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

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