20 best movies like Edward Scissorhands (1990)

List of the best movies like Edward Scissorhands (1990): Simply Irresistible, Big Fish, About Time, Stranger Than Fiction, Ruby Sparks, Collateral Beauty, Rough Magic, The Age of Adaline, Meet Joe Black, Beastly.

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Markimdb: 5.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:36

After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

    Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:03

      The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:53

      Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. But when the narration reveals he is going to die, Harold must find the author and convince them to change the ending.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

        Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:23

        Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
        Duration01:44

        A sleazy politician sends an agent after his ex-fiancee, who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:32

        After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:58

        When the grim reaper comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish, he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish's daily agenda and falls in love with the man's daughter. Yet when Black's holiday is over, so is Parrish's life.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

          A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the weaker and less attractive. When Kyle invites his misfit classmate Kendra to an environmental rally at their school, she questions his motivations but reluctantly accepts. Later, Kyle blows Kendra off, prompting the spurned goth girl to cast a dark spell on the swaggering egotist.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:02

          Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to his young successor. While doing so, Pete also smoothes the course of romance for his earthly girlfriend who, after several months of grieving, finally falls in love with another man.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:55

          After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:44

          When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and dispatch an angel to collect him.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:06

          In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

          It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the psychic wounds of 9/11 still fresh, A Little Help is a story that takes a comic, searching and profoundly empathetic look at a few pivotal months in the life of dental hygienist Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer)-an ordinary woman whose life suddenly flies off the rails-and her heroic efforts to re-establish a sense of security and normalcy for herself and her son.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

          When a chance encounter brings together the cynical Dell and the quick-witted Kimberly, the stage is set for a tempestuous love affair that unfolds like a puzzle. As the film zigzags back and forth in time-from a meteor shower in LA, to an encounter in a Paris hotel room, to a fateful phone call-an unforgettable portrait of a relationship emerges.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryFrance, USA
          Duration01:46

          As the devoutly single Don Johnston is dumped by his latest girlfriend, he receives an anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Hungary
          Duration02:30

          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 Daniel that Luce cannot keep herself away from, and things begin to take a darker turn when she finds out his true identity.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryFrance, Belgium
          Duration02:05

          A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

            Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:39

            A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA

            A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA

            The film tells the story of quick-witted teen Mark, contentedly living the same day in an endless loop whose world is turned upside-down when he meets mysterious Margaret also stuck in the time loop. Mark and Margaret form a magnetic partnership, setting out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect. What follows is a love story with a fantastical twist, as the two struggle to figure out how -- and whether -- to escape their never-ending day.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
            CountryUSA

            Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA, New Zealand
            Duration01:53

            Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:54

            Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Czech Republic
            Duration01:50

            With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:35

            A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
            CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, USA
            Duration01:31

            Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA

            When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upside down. But as their love blossoms amidst the chaos of his treatment, they discover that Elliot's illness is not the real test of their relationship – it's everything else.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:26

            A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

            Markimdb: 4.1
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:41

            The Seminarian is a story about Ryan, a closeted gay student in his final semester of seminary studies. Despite his school's hostile stance towards homosexuality, Ryan has two gay classmates - Gerald and Anthony - in whom he secretly confides. He is also close to his religiously devout mother who, as things stand, is unaware of his sexual orientation. Ryan needs to complete a solid theological thesis in order to continue doctoral work at the university of his dreams. As he works on his thesis 'The Divine Gift of Love,' Ryan begins a relationship with Bradley - a guy he has met on the Internet who seems perpetually unable to commit himself. Ryan confides in Gerald and Anthony, only to learn about their romantic struggles as well. Consequently, Ryan questions his views on God's gift of love.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:24

            When new kid in town Ed Wallis is given an assignment to interview an older person, he turns to his mysterious neighbor, Ashby Holt for help. That new connection leads to unexpected journeys for both of them, as Ashby – who turns out to be a retired CIA assassin – deals with a terminal prognosis, and Ed deals with adjusting to life with his newly single mom and developing relationship with a brainy classmate, Eloise.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrefantasy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            Two seemingly unconnected souls from different corners of the United States make a telepathic bond that allows them to see, hear and feel the other's experiences, creating a bond that apparently can't be broken.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:35

            With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:13

            Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrefantasy, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA
            Duration02:30

            A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, family
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:51

            Fifteen years ago, Ben Walker made a decision to leave his college sweetheart and ultimately his faith, in order to pursue a lucrative business opportunity. Now with a high-paying career and a trophy fiancé, he is visited by an angel, who gives him a glimpse into what his life would look like had he followed his calling.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
            CountrySpain, Canada, USA
            Duration02:56

            The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:17

            Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:07

            Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. When he learns of Carl's betrayal, Sam must seek the help of psychic Oda Mae Brown to set things right and protect Molly from Carl and his goons.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryAustralia
            Duration01:30

            Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genreaction, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang "Mother Medusa".

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:32

            In this rock opera hybrid of Phantom of the Opera and Faust, fledgling singer-songwriter Winslow Leach finds himself double-crossed by the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both his music and the girl Leach wants to sing it, Phoenix, for the grand opening of his rock palace, The Paradise. After Swan sends Leach to prison for trespassing, Leach endures a freak accident which leaves him disfigured and plans his revenge on both Swan and The Paradise, becoming the Phantom of the Paradise.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:54

            The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:54

            Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.




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