Movies Like The Rapture: Hope or Hoax
If you liked The Rapture: Hope or Hoax (1997), a fantasy movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Meet Joe Black (1998)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasyBill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees…
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Switch (1991)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasySteve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship…
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A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasyUpon being fired, a desperate guy kidnaps a daughter of his former boss. Two angels are sent to Earth to check if love is possible in this case.
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Gabriel (2007)
★ 6/10Also fantasyGabriel tells the story of an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory - a place where darkness rules - and save the souls of the city's inhabitants.
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End of Days (1999)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasyCynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he must do everything he can to save the woman and the world.
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Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasyThree people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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Bruce Almighty (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasyBruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he…
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The Family Man (2000)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasyJack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he…
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The Carpenter's Son (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasyA remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.
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The Prophecy (1995)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasyThe angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven. However, it is hidden inside of a Native American girl and only a former priest and a schoolteacher can stop him.
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Chances Are (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also fantasyLouie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda…
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Dogma (1999)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasyAn abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven.
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Click (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasyA married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the…
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City of Angels (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasyWhen 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…
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Beetlejuice (1988)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasyA 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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The Dark Crystal (1982)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasyOn another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
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Ghost (1990)
★ 7.3/10Also fantasyAfter 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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Hogfather (2007)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasyIt's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for…
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasyAmiable 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…
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Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasyThe eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The villains want to kick Emily and her friends out of their group home so that they can build a crooked casino. Good guy Steve…