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Movies Like The Encounter

If you liked The Encounter (1996), a romance movie directed by Alain Cavalier, 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. 1Four Lovers

    Four Lovers (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also romance

    Mutual attraction leads two married couples to swap bedtime partners.

  2. 2Angèle and Tony

    Angèle and Tony (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance

    Angèle, a beautiful young woman with a past, arrives in a small fishing harbor in Normandy. She meets Tony, a professional fisherman, who finds himself attracted to her although he dislikes her blunt ways. Tony hires…

  3. 3A Country Wedding

    A Country Wedding (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance

    A famous country singer set to marry a glamorous Hollywood actress returns to his small town roots. When he crosses paths with his childhood sweetheart and finally feels inspired to write songs again he reevaluates his…

  4. 4The Matchmaker's Playbook

    The Matchmaker's Playbook (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance

    After a career-ending accident, former NFL recruit Ian Hunter is back on campus, and he's putting his extensive skills with women to work as one of the masterminds behind a successful and secretive dating service. But…

  5. 5Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy

    Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance

    A skeptical writer shows up in Evergreen to get the scoop on the town's famed passion for Christmas during a search for a long-lost time capsule.

  6. 6A Christmas Kiss II

    A Christmas Kiss II (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also romance

    At a Christmastime event, Jenna shares an impromptu, unforgettable kiss with the dashing billionaire, Cooper Montgomery. Unaware of his intentions and fearful of getting hurt in another relationship, Jenna vows to…

  7. 7Love in Winterland

    Love in Winterland (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance

    Ally, a final contestant on a dating show, must face her high school sweetheart when she is chosen for the Hometown Date.

  8. 8Attraction

    Attraction (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10Also romance

    A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.

  9. 9Nostalgic Christmas

    Nostalgic Christmas (2019)

    ★ 7/10Also romance

    When Anne helps her father close the family's toy store, what she finds will help inspire an entire town that is need of some Christmas cheer.

  10. 10Angélique

    Angélique (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance

    The incredible destiny of Angélique: a beautiful girl who found in her love for Joffrey Peyrac the strength to fight injustice and submission in a century plagued by power struggles, inequality and the oppression.

  11. 11One Starry Christmas

    One Starry Christmas (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance

    An aspiring astronomy professor finds unexpected Christmas romance when she meets a charming cowboy during her holiday travel. As she decides between this new cowboy and her practical boyfriend, she must decide whether…

  12. 12Runaway Romance

    Runaway Romance (2018)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance

    When she’s written out of her show, her relationship and her seemingly perfect life, reality TV star Ann Stanway leaves Hollywood and finds herself marooned in Amish country. But when Ann is taken in by the owner of a…

  13. 13Paris, Wine & Romance

    Paris, Wine & Romance (2019)

    ★ 6.9/10Also romance

    Isabella is the ambitious new owner of her family’s Oregon winery whose dream of becoming world-renowned takes a big step forward when she enters a prestigious wine competition in Paris. Upon arrival, Isabella meets…

  14. 14Sisters of the Groom

    Sisters of the Groom (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance

    When Sarah needs to impress a corporate bigwig in order to help her sister's catering business, she finds herself agreeing to be his son’s pretend date to a family wedding

  15. 15A Glenbrooke Christmas

    A Glenbrooke Christmas (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance

    As Christmas nears, heiress Jessica Morgan seizes what seems like her last chance to experience a relaxed Christmas and heads off to the small town of Glenbrooke, where she meets a handsome fireman.

  16. 16Holiday Date

    Holiday Date (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance

    When Brooke’s boyfriend, Ethan, breaks up with her just before the holidays, she agrees to go home with Joel, an actor who will pose as her boyfriend.

  17. 17All of My Heart: The Wedding

    All of My Heart: The Wedding (2018)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance

    Brian and Jenny are planning their wedding at the Inn where they fell in love. When a distant relative arrives and stakes their claim to the Inn, Brian and Jenny must find a way to save their beloved Inn or risk having…

  18. 18Gabriel's Rapture: Part I

    Gabriel's Rapture: Part I (2021)

    ★ 7.8/10Also romance

    In the fourth instalment of the Gabriel's Inferno series, Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student Julia Mitchell, but when they return from their romantic…

  19. 19Every Day

    Every Day (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance

    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…

  20. 20Write Before Christmas

    Write Before Christmas (2019)

    ★ 6.9/10Also romance

    A recently single Jessica sends Christmas cards to people who have impacted her life—the aunt who raised her, her younger brother in the military, a popstar who was part of the soundtrack of her life, the music teacher…

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