Movies Like Thus Spoke the Late

If you liked Thus Spoke the Late (2026), a fantasy and drama movie directed by Ibrahim Bumi, 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
Meet Joe Black (1998)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy and drama
Bill 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…
2
A Ghost Story (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and fantasy
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…
3
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and fantasy
Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live…
4
City of Angels (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and fantasy
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…
5
Autumn in New York (2000)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to…
6
The Age of Adaline (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also romance and fantasy
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 In Between (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also romance and 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.
8
What Dreams May Come (1998)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and fantasy
After Chris Nielsen dies in a car accident, he is guided through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Albert. His new world is beautiful and can be whatever Chris imagines. Even his children are there. But, when his…
9
Prince Charming (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasy and romance
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
10
The Life of Chuck (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and 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.
11
Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and fantasy
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
12
The Lovely Bones (2009)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and 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…
13
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama
Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
14
Starman (1984)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance
When 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.
15
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
16
Upside Down (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama
In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually…
17
Life in a Year (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and romance
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.
18
Moonlight Mile (2002)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
19
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romance
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club…
20
Every Day (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also romance and fantasy
16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the…