Movies Like Tessellation

If you liked Tessellation (2020), a movie directed by Yi-chi Chen and Yang Liu, 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.

1
Original Sin (2001)
★ 6.2/10
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
2
Frequencies (2013)
★ 6.6/10
The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.
3
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
★ 6.7/10
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
4
Queer (2024)
★ 6.5/10
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into…
5
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
6
The Age of Adaline (2015)
★ 7.5/10
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.
7
The Longest Ride (2015)
★ 7.6/10
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
8
Time Freak (2018)
★ 6.7/10
Stillman, a heartbroken physics student, builds a time machine when his girlfriend breaks up with him. Going back in time, he attempts to save their relationship by fixing every mistake he made—while dragging his best…
9
Two Lovers (2008)
★ 6.9/10
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
10
Someone Great (2019)
★ 6.4/10
An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one…
11
Life in a Year (2020)
★ 8.2/10
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
12
The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
★ 6.9/10
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his…
13
The Time Machine (1960)
★ 7.4/10
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
14
Before I Fall (2017)
★ 7/10
Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…
15
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
★ 7/10
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.
16
The Time Machine (2002)
★ 6.4/10
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
17
All of You (2025)
★ 6.3/10
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
18
Turtles All the Way Down (2024)
★ 7.2/10
Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.
19
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
★ 6.8/10
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
20
After (2019)
★ 7.1/10
Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious…