
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.
If When We First Met hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: time travel
The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than When We First Met does

The same mix in both: wit, then play
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Common ground: time travel
The difference: Missing the wit of When We First Met

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Comedy built on dream logic, twice over

Both lean on romance more than on romance
The difference: None of the wit When We First Met is built on

One thread runs through both: unrequited love

Both keep coming back to the same thing: do over

Witty fantasy, and it commits to that
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Both are built on the same subject: time loop

Another one that scratches it

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases
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