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Movies Like Crane Became & Foxtrel

If you liked Crane Became & Foxtrel (2019), a drama and fantasy movie directed by Wei Wang, 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. 1Winter's Tale

    Winter's Tale (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and fantasy

    A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

  2. 2Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson (1935)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy

    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…

  3. 3Wicked

    Wicked (2021)

    ★ 7.8/10Also fantasy and romance

    Ivy Morgan, a college student in New Orleans, falls for Ren Owens, the last person she expected to enter her rigidly controlled life.

  4. 4A Writer's Odyssey

    A Writer's Odyssey (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and drama

    Lu Kongwen is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a Black Armor. But through a strange…

  5. 5Maria's Lovers

    Maria's Lovers (1984)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.

  6. 6Painted Skin: The Resurrection

    Painted Skin: The Resurrection (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and fantasy

    According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there is a legend that if a pure…

  7. 7Brotherhood of Blades

    Brotherhood of Blades (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and drama

    In the late Ming Dynasty, three sworn brothers who serve as the imperial secret police are dispatched to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch politician who had been forced to resign from his influential post and exiled…

  8. 8Fallen

    Fallen (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and fantasy

    Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is…

  9. 9Summer Palace

    Summer Palace (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.

  10. 10Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy

    Bai Qian, a goddess and monarch from the Heavenly Realms, is sent to the mortal world to undergo a trial to become a High Goddess. There, she meets Ye Hua, with whom she falls in love and marries. When an old enemy…

  11. 11The Shepherd

    The Shepherd (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy

    On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.

  12. 12The Secret of the Magic Gourd

    The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and fantasy

    When schoolboy Wang Bao discovers a magical gourd that can instantly grant his every wish, the awkward child suddenly becomes a hero amongst his curious classmates. When the gourd proves more of a burden than a…

  13. 13Painted Skin

    Painted Skin (2008)

    ★ 6/10Also fantasy and drama

    Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely…

  14. 14Blind

    Blind (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

  15. 15Jade Dynasty

    Jade Dynasty (2019)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    After the massacre of his village, Zhang Xiaofan is taken in by the Qing Yun Sect where he begins his journey of cultivation. When he finds out the truth behind the deaths of his parents, he succumbs to his rage and…

  16. 16Sahara

    Sahara (1983)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara…

  17. 17Her Story

    Her Story (2024)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    Wang Tiemei, a single mother, loses her job and moves, befriending neighbor Xiaoye who appears cheerful but is depressed. Their bond grows as Tiemei navigates relationships with her ex-husband causing trouble.

  18. 18The Yin Yang Master

    The Yin Yang Master (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and fantasy

    The world is on the verge of a devastating war with monsters who are coming to retrieve the Scaling Stone. Yin Yang Master Qingming's life is in danger and he travels to different worlds to prepare for the upcoming…

  19. 19Life in a Year

    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.

  20. 20The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

    The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    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.

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