Movies like The Shape of Water

If you like "The Shape of Water" you are looking for touching, fairy tale and romantic movies about / with sign language, creature, love story, interspecies romance, supernatural, female protagonist and rescue themes of Drama, Fantasy and Romance genre shot in USA or Mexico.
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The Shape of Water (2017)
 7.3
 445K
The Shape of Water (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story: 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.
Style: touching, fairy tale, romantic, biting, disturbing, ambiguous ending, dark fantasy, visually stunning, surreal, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: sign language, creature, love story, interspecies romance, supernatural, female protagonist, rescue, laboratory, cold war, interspecies sex, scientist, water, loneliness, friendship, captive, cruelty, mute, mute woman, interracial friendship, escape, healing power, magic realism, egg, monster, merman ...
Time: 2010s, year 1962, year 2017, future, 60s, 1960s
Place: maryland, america, los angeles, baltimore, usa, pittsburgh, soviet union ...
Keyword: russian, movie theatre, trunk, marquee, jug, challenge, eye candy

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Most similar movies to The Shape of Water

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, surreal, weird and cult classic films with plots about love, love story, supernatural, flashback, love and romance, death and surrealism mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Shape of Water: Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Splash (1983), Crimson Peak (2015), I Am Dragon (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 8.2
 700K
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teen fantasy, adult, teen drama
Plot: monster, mythology, fantasy world, macabre, creature, imagination, magical, legends and myths, good versus evil, maze, young heroes, imaginary ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style: gothic, fairy tale, surreal, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, freak, social misfits, love and romance, inventor, love story, teenage girl, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.3
 83K
Splash (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Style: feel good, sentimental, fairy tale, touching, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: mermaid, happy ending, transformation, fish out of water, scientist, public nudity, cape cod massachusetts, love, chase, obsession, sea, boat ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.5
 158K
Crimson Peak (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, incest, macabre, murder, female protagonist, psychopath, betrayal, brother sister incest, estate, ghost story ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2015, 1900s, edwardian era ...
Place: england, america, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 6.8
 6K
I Am Dragon (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the midst of the wedding princess Miroslava is kidnapped by a dragon and carried away into his castle on the remote island. Mira left everything behind in the past - family, friends and groom. Now the only things she had were a stone cage and a ...
Style: fairy tale, romantic, sweet, touching, exciting ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: dragon, wedding, kidnapping, love and romance, abduction, love story, wedding ceremony, human sacrifice, medieval, ritual, love interest, kaiju ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.
Style: fairy tale, philosophical, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: genie, djinn, mythology, desire, storytelling, magic, lonely, self discovery, wizards and magicians, changing lives, female protagonist, problem ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century, 2020s, future, 1800s
Place: istanbul turkey, ottoman empire, turkey, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this continuation to the adventure of the demon superhero, an evil elf breaks an ancient pact between humans and creatures, as he declares war against humanity. He is on a mission to release The Golden Army, a deadly group of fighting machines ...
Style: dark fantasy, scary, stylized, exciting, visual ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: superhero, monster, creature, supernatural, supernatural ability, comic book, good versus evil, heroic mission, villain, dark hero, army, magic ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 1950s, 21st century
Place: northern ireland, ireland, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Style: gothic, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, monster, dangerous attraction, dracula, goth, legends and myths, gory, bloodsucker, vampire bite, love triangle, vampire human love ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: london, transylvania, england, ottoman empire, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
 133K
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: surreal, buddy comedy, touching, mindfuck, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, corpse, survival, hallucination, friendship, loneliness, forest, imagination, dead body, dark humor, life & death, island ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.8
 2.2M
Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 51K
Starman (1984)
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.
Style: road movie, touching, spiritual, anamorphic, suspense ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: alien, alien invasion, space, on the road, road trip, ufo, friendly alien, chase, resurrection, desert, time travel, supernatural ...
Time: 80s, future, year 1984, 20th century
Place: usa, las vegas, arizona, washington d.c., wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 4K
Fallen (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: For high schooler Aaron Corbett, turning 18 means becoming not just a man but a nephilim, too -- half human, half angel, with supernatural abilities.
Style: cliffhanger, suspenseful, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: angel, fallen angel, life turned upside down, good versus evil, supernatural, heroes, supernatural ability, young heroes, self discovery, foreknowledge, chosen one, heaven ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 31K
Tale of Tales (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
Style: fairy tale, dark fantasy, atmospheric, stylized, disturbing ...
Plot: medieval, witch, beautiful scenery, magic, castle, king, fantasy world, fight scenes, monster, ogre, circus, violence ...
Time: 17th century
Place: italy, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 118K
The Host (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, romantic, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, teenage girl, apocalypse, interspecies romance, true love, youth, evil alien, invasion, self sacrifice, teenage love, love and romance, power of love ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013
Place: usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 32K
Powder (1995)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This ...
Style: spiritual, sad, inspirational, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: paranormal phenomena, loneliness, albino, supernatural, miraculous event, bullying, christ allegory, struck by lightning, extrasensory perception, bully, electricity, humanity ...
Time: future
Place: tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style: touching, philosophical, dramatic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: destiny, true love, life & death, life philosophy, aging, existentialism, love and romance, fictional biography, melancholy, puzzle, tragic love, old age ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2008, 1950s ...
Place: new orleans, cambodia, usa, pearl harbor, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, heaven and hell, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, redemption, reincarnation, spirituality, love, hell, metaphysics, life after death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.8
 79K
A Ghost Story (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip ...
Style: art house, psychological, artsy, post-horror, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, loss, grief, death of husband, legacy, loneliness, piano, paranormal, loss of husband, sadness, haunting, love ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s, future, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Wings of Desire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, meditative, lyrical, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, immortality, dream, circus, love, existentialism, philosophy, mortality, library, loneliness, love story, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 8.0
 680K
Groundhog Day (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style: feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot: time loop, existentialism, small town, groundhog day, winter, time travel, time warp, time, life philosophy, redemption, fall in love, repeated event ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, persia, america, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.6
 29K
Knight of Cups (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily ...
Style: stylized, art house, meditative, philosophical, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love, temptation, desert, multiple storylines, tarot card, humanity, visceral, existentialism, obsession, trippy, photography, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the 18th century, an artist is commissioned to paint a young woman's wedding portrait.
Style: touching, costume drama, scenic, disturbing, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, lesbian, painting, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, lesbian love, portrait, female protagonist, lesbian sex, lesbian attraction, arranged marriage ...
Time: 18th century, 2010s, victorian era, ancient times, year 2019 ...
Place: brittany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.7
 245K
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style: psychological, surreal, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: time, philosophy, destiny, alternate reality, surrealism, butterfly effect, depression, choice, utopia, twists and turns, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2011, distant future, 2010s ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 7.8
 383K
About Time (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: time travel, time loop, life philosophy, fall in love, true love, couple relations, looking for love, changing the past or future, sent to the past, life, father son relationship, young woman ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.5
 116K
Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style: sexual, sexy, disturbing, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love affair, housewife, sex, small town, sexual pleasure, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, parenthood ...
Time: year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany, France, Spain, USA, Belgium
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspense, clever, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, obsession, psychopath, macabre, perfume, genius, insanity, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, master apprentice relationship, sense of smell, secret formula ...
Time: 18th century, year 2006, 19th century, georgian era
Place: france, paris france, europe, barcelona, persia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 8.0
 665K
Her (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style: melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, touching, clever ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, philosophy, love, computer, cyberspace, impossible love, relationship problems, psychology, human nature, unlikely relationship ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.3
 210K
Blue Valentine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style: touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.5
 9K
Il Mare (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Eun-joo moves out of her house "Il Mare", leaving behind a Christmas card for the eventual new owner of the house in 1999. In it she asks him/her to forward any mail of hers to her new address in the city. It is 1997 and Sung-hyun, the ...
Style: sentimental, serious, mind twisting, touching, psychological thriller ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, friendship, impossible love, architect, supernatural, unlikely couple, love affair, couples, supernatural romance, fall in love, love story ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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