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Movies Like Karanukan

If you liked Karanukan (2017), a romance and fantasy movie directed by Yasuhiro Hamano, 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. 1Prince Charming

    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.

  2. 2Every Day

    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…

  3. 3A Fairy Tale After All

    A Fairy Tale After All (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy

    A stubborn teenage girl finds herself confronted by whimsical characters when she is transported into a world of fantasy and fairy tales while attending a school marionette show.

  4. 4The Water Man

    The Water Man (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy

    Hoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's…

  5. 5Come Away

    Come Away (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy

    Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of…

  6. 6Mythica: A Quest for Heroes

    Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy

    Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…

  7. 7Princess

    Princess (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also fantasy

    A reclusive princess and a directionless young man embark on a quest to save the world's mythical creatures from becoming extinct.

  8. 8Dragonheart: Vengeance

    Dragonheart: Vengeance (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10Also fantasy

    Lukas, a young farmer whose family is killed by savage raiders in the countryside, sets out on an epic quest for revenge, forming an unlikely trio with a majestic dragon and a swashbuckling, sword-fighting mercenary…

  9. 9Above the Shadows

    Above the Shadows (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and romance

    A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.

  10. 10Attraction

    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.

  11. 11Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

    Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)

    ★ 6.9/10Also fantasy

    A little boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his own fantasy, which is everything he has dreamed of, until he unleashes an old secret that may not only destroy this perfect dream world but reality itself.

  12. 12Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

    Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also fantasy

    A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.

  13. 13Abigail

    Abigail (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also fantasy

    A 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…

  14. 14The Tale of the White Serpent

    The Tale of the White Serpent (1958)

    ★ 6.2/10Also fantasy

    As a young boy, Xu-Xian is forced to free his pet, a small snake. Unbeknownst to him, the snake is actually a young snake goddess named Bai-Niang and she is in love with him. Many years later, when they are both…

  15. 15Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire

    Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017)

    ★ 6/10Also fantasy

    When the King Gareth dies, his potential heirs, twin grandchildren who possess the dragon’s unique strengths, use their inherited powers against each other to vie for the throne. When Drago’s source of power – known as…

  16. 16Strawberry Mansion

    Strawberry Mansion (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy

    In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote…

  17. 17Four Kids and It

    Four Kids and It (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also fantasy

    A group of kids on holiday in Cornwall meet a magical creature on the beach with the power to grant wishes.

  18. 18X

    X (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance

    A veteran call girl and a runaway prostitute witness a murder which sends them on an out-of-control roller coaster ride through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale.

  19. 19Wish Upon a Unicorn

    Wish Upon a Unicorn (2020)

    ★ 6.9/10Also fantasy

    Two children discover that their mother is gone. The youngest of the pair, adventurer and upcomming singer, Long Johnson forces his older sister, Lily Johnson, to hunt down a unicorn with magical blood.

  20. 20Runaway

    Runaway (2010)

    ★ 7.7/10Also fantasy and romance

    A man falls in love with a half-woman/half-phoenix who fell to Earth from the sky.

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