20 best movies like The Butcher's Wife (1991)

List of the best movies like The Butcher's Wife (1991): Winter's Tale, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Abyss, Penelope, Heaven Can Wait, About Time, Frankie and Johnny, Love Potion No. 9, Blithe Spirit, Just Like Heaven.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

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.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

    When notorious womanizer Connor Mead attends his brother Paul's wedding, he is forced to re-evaluate his behavior as he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of girlfriends past, present, and future, along with his deceased uncle. The experience changes his attitude and allows him to reconnect with his first and only love, Jenny.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration00:51

    After meeting an untimely demise in separate incidents, Cha Min and Go Se-yeon discover they’ve come back to life in new bodies they don’t recognize.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:39

      Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

      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: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        Unlucky in love, chemist Paul Matthews visits gypsy Madame Rosa for help. Quickly realizing he is a hopeless nerd, she gifts him with Love Potion No. 8, which makes anyone who wears it irresistible to the opposite sex for four hours. Paul and animal psychologist coworker Diane Farrow decide to test it on themselves. The awkward pair suddenly find themselves alluring to anyone they approach, but soon realize they are most attracted to each other.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia

        A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.

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

        Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.

        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: 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: 6.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her blind date with Miles, a handsome guy she's been set up with. In a strange twist of fate, Kate is given the chance to re-live Christmas Eve twelve times.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        Left broke and homeless by his wealthy parents' divorce, a young man moves in with an old friend and finally meets the woman of his dreams -- only to discover she's already dating his friend.

        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: 5.6
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

          A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          A professional in the advertising business, Holly dreams of finding Mr. Right, & getting the "perfect" romance. When she meets someone who ~looks the part, she falls hard & fast. But soon she is reminded that appearances can be deceiving, & true love grows in more unexpected places.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:53

            Though Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to be engaged to her best friend, Darcy (Kate Hudson). Ramifications of the liaison threaten to destroy the women's lifelong friendship, while Ethan (John Krasinski), Rachel's confidant, harbors a potentially explosive secret of his own.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:49

            Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish type who, while enjoying a night on the town, meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited Mexican-American photographer. Alex and Isabel are overtaken by lust at first sight and end up sp

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantasy, melodrama
            CountryCanada, United Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:19

            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 next day will bring.

            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: 6.4
            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: 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
            Genrecomedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:36

            For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, musical
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:09

            Under hypnosis while trying to quit smoking, Daisy Gamble revisits past lives and different personalities.

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

            A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:42

            A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

            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: 5.9
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA

            Louise is not very popular at her highschool. Then she learns that she's descended from the witches of Salem and has inherited their powers. At first she uses them to get back at the girls and teachers who teased her and to win the heart of the handsome footballer's captain. But soon she has doubts if it's right to 'cheat' her way to popularity.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA

            Family friends Sam and Kat spend every Christmas Eve at the Children's Table. They grow up together, sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood. And at thirty, Sam realizes that Kat is the one...but he's afraid that the past will get in the way.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
            Duration01:56

            A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy about lovers whose romantic affections are manipulated by fairy magic. The setting is updated to a Tuscan hill town in the late 19th century.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:44

            Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA, France
            Duration01:38

            Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA, Spain
            Duration01:34

              A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, family
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:44

              A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman. What will he find out about this strange world?

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
              CountryUSA

              Charles Whitley travels from 1903 to 2020 where he meets Megan Turner, a tour guide at his historic mansion, and experiences a 21st Century Christmas.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:42

              Dentist, Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:05

              Romance novelist Liam Bradley (Dylan Bruce) has already found massive success with three books written under the pen name Gabriel August, but he's mysteriously unknown to his legions of readers. With his first book written as a way to heal after a broken relationship, Liam has slowly become disheartened with writing strictly for romantic fantasy, something evident to a sweet, but honest, journalist who reviews books, Sophie Atkinson (Amy Acker), whom he meets by chance on a plane. The two begin a tentative relationship in Sophie’s home town of Portland, Oregon, where Liam has come to find inspiration for his newest entry. Liam’s agent puts him on the spot with a long-planned reveal of Gabriel August’s true identity, but Sophie doesn’t know of his public persona. The longer Liam avoids telling her the truth, the deeper a hole he digs for himself. Will their romance survive once his true identity comes to light?

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrecomedy, melodrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:26

              After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They're now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should.

              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: 6.8
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:35

                A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:54

                Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet – both blissfully unaware that he's putting her out of business.

                Markimdb: 5.3
                Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:32

                Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrecomedy, melodrama
                CountryUSA

                Lizzie, a high-end event planner, lies awake nightly while her devoted fiancé Josh rests peacefully. When a sleep-deprived incident causes her to run into Billy, a low-key bartender who is just as sleepless and frustrated as she is, they discover that they can only fall asleep while next to each other.

                Markimdb: 6.1
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, France
                Duration01:38

                  When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.

                  Markimdb: 5.7
                  Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:45

                  Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must cope with a dangerously jealous fiancée, an exploitive future father-in-law and a group of buddies with an outrageous business plan!

                  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: 7.7
                  Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:22

                  Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

                  Markimdb: 6.1
                  Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:04

                  Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.




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