Movies Like Love in the Age of Steam
If you liked Love in the Age of Steam (2017), a movie directed by Karen McCarthy, 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.
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Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
★ 6.8/10Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
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57 Seconds (2023)
★ 6.2/10When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
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Robots (2005)
★ 6.5/10Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of…
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Time Freak (2018)
★ 6.7/10Stillman, 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…
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Abigail (2019)
★ 6.1/10A young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going…
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The Rainmaker (1956)
★ 6.8/10Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors…
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
★ 7.1/10Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.
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iBoy (2017)
★ 6/10After an accident, Tom wakes from a coma to discover that fragments of his smart phone have been embedded in his head, and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange…
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
★ 7/10Due 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.
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The Electric State (2025)
★ 6.5/10An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
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Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
★ 6.5/10An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.
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The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
★ 6.1/10Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
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Broken Flowers (2005)
★ 6.9/10An introverted man receives an anonymous letter from an ex-lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor motivates the man to embark on a cross-country search for his…
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
★ 7.7/10A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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Vanilla Sky (2001)
★ 6.8/10David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his…
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Mortal Engines (2018)
★ 6.3/10Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom…
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Every Day (2018)
★ 7.2/1016-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…
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Train Dreams (2025)
★ 7.3/10A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
★ 6.1/10At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, before her marriage and all her regrets. Given a second chance to relive her youth, she must decide whether to change the…
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Forbidden Planet (1956)
★ 7.3/10Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone…