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Movies that feel likeYour Name. (2016)

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

If you loved Your Name., the closest films we have are Weathering with You (2019), A Whisker Away (2020) and Before Midnight (2013). All three share Your Name.'s romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Millennium Actress (2002).

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Makoto Shinkairomantictendercontemplativedreamlike
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Weathering with You
2019 · dir. Makoto Shinkai
🍅 92%★ 7.5animation · drama · fantasyMax

Shinkai's next spell — young love against a sky that won't cooperate

The difference: The magic system creaks — less airtight than the body-swap hook

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

A supernatural loophole that becomes the only way to reach someone

The difference: Slighter and stranger — the cat conceit can't carry as much

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 · dramaRent or buy

Two people talking their way to what love actually costs

The difference: Nothing supernatural — a long-married couple, talking

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

Time bending in a way that's really about not wasting the people you love

The difference: Cozy and comic, and it belongs to fathers and sons as much as lovers

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

A fairy tale told sincerely, with longing you can feel in the images

The difference: Adult and tactile — grubby period detail, not sweeping open sky

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

Romantic and tender in the same breath

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

A teenager's ordinary life upended by inherited time travel

The difference: YA franchise-starter mechanics — setup outweighs payoff

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

Small-town teens whose romance trips a supernatural countdown

The difference: YA gothic plotting — exposition where the ache should be

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

Lovers kept out of sync by time itself, meeting when they can

The difference: Weepy adult melodrama — the mechanics get muddled

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

Love complicated by time working differently for the two in it

The difference: Glossy and sedate — an elegant premise without the emotional surge

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

Two lives passing each other on schedules that refuse to align

The difference: Long and stately — a lifetime's melancholy, not a rush of feeling

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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🍅 49%★ 5.6fantasy · drama · romanceNetflix

Sincere, swooning romance played entirely without irony

The difference: Franchise plotting and flat visuals — none of the beauty or ache

After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.

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