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Movies Like Encounter

If you liked Encounter (2025), a movie directed by Duan Tsung-hao, 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. 1Hungry Hearts

    Hungry Hearts (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10

    The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

  2. 2The Adjustment Bureau

    The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness…

  3. 3Brief Encounter

    Brief Encounter (1945)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during…

  4. 4Autumn in New York

    Autumn in New York (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10

    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…

  5. 5Addicted

    Addicted (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

  6. 6About Fate

    About Fate (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Two strangers believe in love but never seem to be able to find its true meaning. In a wild twist of events, fate puts each in the other's path on one stormy New Year's Eve.

  7. 7Sliding Doors

    Sliding Doors (1998)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she runs down, her life suddenly splits off. In one version she catches the train; in the second, she misses it. Her whole…

  8. 8Serendipity

    Serendipity (2001)

    ★ 7/10

    Although already in relationships, two strangers realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the…

  9. 9The Time Traveler's Wife

    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.

  10. 10Eternity

    Eternity (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10

    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…

  11. 11The Map That Leads to You

    The Map That Leads to You (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Heather is a young woman traveling Europe with friends before starting her perfectly planned life. A chance meeting with Jack sparks an unexpected romance that leads to deep emotional discovery. As secrets and life…

  12. 12Inner Workings

    Inner Workings (2016)

    ★ 7.8/10

    This is the story of the internal struggle between a man's Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose.

  13. 13Meet Joe Black

    Meet Joe Black (1998)

    ★ 7.4/10

    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…

  14. 14Only You

    Only You (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named 'Damon Bradley', but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to marry podiatrist Dwayne in ten days, Faith…

  15. 15Endless Love

    Endless Love (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.

  16. 16A Guy Thing

    A Guy Thing (2003)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked when he wakes up in bed with a beautiful girl named Becky and can't…

  17. 17Advantageous

    Advantageous (2015)

    ★ 6/10

    In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

  18. 18Someone Like You...

    Someone Like You... (2001)

    ★ 6/10

    Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane…

  19. 19Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

  20. 20Jeff, Who Lives at Home

    Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.

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