Movies like What Dreams May Come
What Dreams May Come (1998) is a fantasy movie directed by Vincent Ward. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Ghost (1990)
★ 7.2 · 6,248 votes · Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
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2. Eternity (2025)
★ 7.1 · 888 votes · Romance, Comedy, Drama
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.
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3. City of Angels (1998)
★ 6.8 · 2,474 votes · Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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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4. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
★ 6.3 · 1,417 votes · Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.
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5. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
★ 7.7 · 492 votes · Romance, Fantasy, Drama
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
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6. Beetlejuice (1988)
★ 7.4 · 8,750 votes · Fantasy, Comedy
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
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7. Jane Eyre (2011)
★ 7.2 · 1,613 votes · Drama, Romance
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
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8. The Lovely Bones (2009)
★ 7.1 · 5,106 votes · Fantasy, Drama
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.
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9. The In Between (2022)
★ 7.3 · 860 votes · Romance, Sci-Fi, Drama
After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.
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10. The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
★ 7.0 · 2,821 votes · Drama, Romance, Fantasy
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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11. The Life of Chuck (2025)
★ 7.3 · 1,326 votes · Drama, Fantasy
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
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12. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
★ 8.3 · 5,106 votes · Drama, Family, Fantasy
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
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13. The Leisure Seeker (2018)
★ 7.1 · 504 votes · Drama, Romance, Adventure
A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.
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14. 2 Hearts (2020)
★ 7.2 · 655 votes · Romance, Drama
When illness strikes two people who are polar opposites, life and death bring them together in surprising ways.
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