20 best movies like Sliding Doors (1998)

List of the best movies like Sliding Doors (1998): If Only, About Time, On the Milky Road, Rough Magic, The Good Night, Some Girls, Last Christmas, Welcome to Marwen, Ruby Sparks, Life, Animated.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:32

After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), a grief-stricken British businessman, Ian Wyndham, living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed.

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: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, military
    CountrySerbia, United Kingdom, USA, Argentina, Mexico
    Duration02:16

    A man, shaken by fate after his wife's death, chooses to be a monk.

    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: 5.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration01:33

    Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his mystery woman's face on a bus billboard, he discovers she is real, and fate brings him an opportunity to meet her.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:34

    While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Her last date with disaster? That of having accepted to work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration01:55

    When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

    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: 7.4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family, documentary
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:31

      A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:54

      A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

      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: 7.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Shrimp explores the strange, interwoven and often hilarious daily lives of the women and men who work and play in a Los Angeles BDSM den.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:28

      Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop livin'!

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Opting to sleep in the allegedly-haunted guest house while spending a weekend in the Hamptons with friends, Ruth, a lonely young woman in her mid-twenties who's had too much to drink, strikes up a conversation that leads to a sexual encounter with Michael, a burlap-draped ghost that casually appears before her. Through this inter-paranormal relation, Ruth contracts an STD with alarming effects.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:19

      Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

      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: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      Peggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A self-anointed 'renegade' male flight attendant must save the day when the airline he works for tries to eliminate flight attendants as a cost-cutting measure.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      It's a comedy about a guarded woman who finds out she's dying of cancer, but when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      Antoine and Kenny Tyler are NCAA college basketball players, and Antoine is the star. Suddenly Antoine dies of heart attack and Kenny has to fill his shoes as leader of team. Some time later, Antoine returns as a ghost and helps Kenny in game and in life, but Kenny changes in the process and doesn't quite like it.

      Markimdb: 9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A dog who strives to become a man seeks a woman who will love him enough for the transformation to take place.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:30

      While on a dangerous mission to recover the historic Judas Chalice, Flynn is saved by Simone. But when double-crossed by a respected professor and ambushed by a ruthless gang, Flynn realizes Simone's secret, his true mission and a shocking discovery are all lying within a decaying New Orleans crypt.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. On her very first night she meets the ghost of the crusty former owner, Captain Gregg—and refuses to be scared off. They eventually become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man's ghost haunting her bedroom.

      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: 7.4
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil, however, isn't so sure Henry meets Hell's standards. Convinced he is where he belongs, Henry recounts his life's deeds, both good and bad, including an act of indiscretion during his 25-year marriage to his wife, Martha, with the hope that "His Excellency" will arrive at the proper judgment.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:34

      Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      A modern, punk adaptation of Shakespeare's classic. Told irreverently, this film attempts to impact the viewer in the same way theatre-goers were effected in Shakespeare's time. Bawdy, Violent, Humorous, and Romantic.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crime.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:46

      Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) chokes to death and is resurrected by her loopy sister Zelda (Judith Ivey) on the one year anniversary of her death. Lucy, of course, does not believe she has actually been dead and thinks it is an elaborate hoax until she goes to her apartment and discovers her husband (Corbin Bernsen) married to her gold digging best friend, Kim (Sela Ward).

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance, Italy, USA
      Duration01:45

      A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A hypochondriac irks his partner by embracing the advice of an eccentric healer.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife and well-intentioned parents. But when his young son faces a tragedy, Michael needs to make amends with his past. A mysterious man named Nick gives Michael a gift and instills in him the courage to find the joy that he lost.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Rev. Biggs prays to God for help - and help arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.




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