20 movies like James vs. His Future Self, ordered by similarity : The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir(2018), The Confirmation(2016), Hector and the Search for Happiness(2014), Green Book(2018), Somewhere Slow(2013), Heartbeats(2017), Gavagai(2018), Hope Springs Eternal(2018), 2046(2004), Mimosas(2016), American Honey(2016), Alright Now(2018) ...
Drama
Canada
2019
94 Minutes
Jonas Chernick Daniel Stern Cleopatra Coleman Frances Conroy Tommie-Amber Pirie
scientist time traveler amusing endearing lighthearted moving canada time travel unintended consequences future second chance discovery mystery quest 2010s
A scientist meets a version of himself from the future who has traveled back in time to stop himself from inventing time travel.
Comedy, Adventure, Drama
France|India|Belgium|Singapore|USA
2018
92 Minutes
Dhanush Bérénice Bejo Erin Moriarty Barkhad Abdi Gérard Jugnot Ben Miller Abel Jafri Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse
artist mother young woman indian american magician emotional amusing inspiring creative charming heartwarming mumbai, india paris closet village city home family history death of mother
Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.
Comedy, Drama
Canada
2016
101 Minutes
Clive Owen Jaeden Martell Maria Bello Robert Forster Tim Blake Nelson Patton Oswalt Matthew Modine Stephen Tobolowsky
carpenter thief son father family mother charming endearing heartwarming lighthearted moving playful canada small town home father/son relationship fatherhood bonding life lessons growing up
A divorced father and his eight-year-old son are about to spend a somewhat predictable weekend together, nevertheless, when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the search for the thieves will soon turn into a true family bonding.
Comedy, Adventure, Drama
Germany|Canada|UK|South Africa|USA
2014
114 Minutes
Simon Pegg Toni Collette Rosamund Pike Stellan Skarsgård Jean Reno Christopher Plummer Chad Willett Veronica Ferres Jakob Davies
psychiatrist girlfriend patient friend traveler doctor amusing confident emotional quirky touching witty london office apartment airplane hospital house identity crisis happiness
A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
Comedy, Drama
USA|China
2018
130 Minutes
Viggo Mortensen Mahershala Ali Linda Cardellini Sebastian Maniscalco Dimiter D. Marinov Mike Hatton P.J. Byrne Joe Cortese Maggie Nixon Von Lewis Jon Sortland
pianist driver bodyguard bouncer musician emotional touching amusing creative moving stage club car jail bar racism unlikely friendship unlikely allies travel music
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
2013
125 Minutes
Jessalyn Gilsig David Costabile Graham Martin Robert Forster Lindsay Crouse Melissa Claire Egan Wallace Langham Clifford Bañagale Kim Yarbrough Blaise Embry Denise Grayson
woman teen boy teenager drifter mysterious drifter love interest romantic interest lighthearted emotional endearing heartwarming inspiring united states discovery new life starting over self-discovery robbery travel traveling
When Anna Thompson gets mixed up in a convenience store robbery, she makes a split-second decision to walk out of her life and into the unknown. On her travels, she meets Travis, a teenage drifter on his own journey of self-discovery.
Drama, Romance, Music
United Arab Emirates|USA|India
2017
107 Minutes
Krystal Ellsworth Amitash Pradhan Justin Chon Paul McGillion Daphne Zuniga Maeve O'Brien Aneesha Joshi Prabal Panjabi Mohan Kapoor Kishori Shahane Sahil Salathia
college student young woman american indian young man love interest dancer airy amusing moving lighthearted inspiring india wedding dance club travel indian culture wedding dreams aspirations
A young American college student with dreams of being a professional dancer travels to India with her family for a week long Indian wedding and falls in love -- both with a new style of dance, and with a young man who introduces it to her.
Drama
Norway|Canada|Germany
2018
90 Minutes
Andreas Lust Anni-Kristina Juuso Mikkel Gaup Essra Berge Thomas Tufte Halvor Sandnes Karin Mustvedt-Plüs Einar Andreas Søli
businessman translator widower tour guide pregnant woman girlfriend emotional endearing amusing touching moving china car train station restaurant hotel poetry culture love relationships
A German businessman travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some poems into Chinese, a project of his late wife.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
78 Minutes
Mia Rose Frampton Stony Blyden Beau Brooks Lauren Giraldo Pej Vahdat Beth Lacke Juliette Angelo Kate Rachesky
cancer patient survivor boyfriend friend family member amusing endearing moving touching charming high school cafeteria hospital doctor's office gym classroom survival new life second chance friendship
When 18 year old Hope Gracin suddenly finds herself in remission from end-stage cancer, she must learn to live without an expiration date.
Romance, Drama
Hong Kong|China|France|Italy|Germany
2004
127 Minutes
Tony Leung Gong Li Takuya Kimura Faye Wong Zhang Ziyi Carina Lau Chang Chen Wang Sum Ping Lam Siu Maggie Cheung Thongchai McIntyre
novelist prostitute heiress ex-lover gambler android airy offbeat intricate oriental hotel hong kong train singapore mythical land memory time travel romance writing lost loves quest
Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Drama
Spain|Morocco|France|Romania|Qatar
2016
96 Minutes
Abdelatif Hwidar Ahmed Hammoud Shakib Ben Omar Ilham Oujri Hamid Farjad
sheik traveler bandit man woman child brooding emotional intense mountain africa caravan car camp stream travel death helping others dignity honor
A dying Sheikh travels across the Moroccan Atlas in a caravan escorted by two rogues.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
2016
162 Minutes
Sasha Lane Riley Keough Shia LaBeouf McCaul Lombardi Arielle Holmes Crystal B. Ice Garry Howell Kenneth Kory Tucker Raymond Coalson Isaiah Stone Dakota Powers
teen girl party girl young man manager enforcer traveler brooding emotional fascinating highway van hotel house party bedroom growing up travel sales dreams party
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Comedy, Drama
2018
95 Minutes
Cobie Smulders Noel Clarke Laura Patch Holli Dempsey Emily Atack Jessica Hynes Richard Elis Ian Smith
rock star college student band member friend love interest amusing endearing lighthearted mushy quirky united kingdom university dorm party city crisis second chance education new experiences life lessons
Drama, Romance
USA
2017
95 Minutes
Rebecca Romijn Jerry O'Connell Bruce Davison David Julian Hirsh Jocelyn Hudon Benjamin Sutherland
woman man couple mother daughter ex-girlfriend charming engaging endearing emotional lighthearted moving paris big city relationships rekindled romance romance travel misunderstanding regret
There was a time in Mark's life where he thought he had it all. He had money, power but he had never experienced true love. That was until the day that Tonya came back into his life. Will ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
Germany|Norway
2015
93 Minutes
Laura Tonke Hans Löw Margarita Broich Rosa Enskat Robert Hofmann Urs Jucker Alex Brendemühl Jakob Bieber Matthias Bundschuh Fritz Roth
woman boyfriend son suicidal person couple friend amusing melodramatic engaging heartwarming moving touching germany norway happiness relationships family travel meaning of life adventure
A young woman comes down with panic disorder and has to come to terms with this.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA|Italy
2003
113 Minutes
Diane Lane Sandra Oh Lindsay Duncan Vincent Riotta Raoul Bova Giulia Steigerwalt Mario Monicelli Roberto Nobile
divorcée critic ex-husband best friend actress love interest lighthearted playful amusing san francisco dinner party tuscany, italy wedding villa divorce self-discovery writer's block travel quest transformation
A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.
Comedy, Drama
2016
86 Minutes
Parker Posey Lena Dunham John Rothman Joshua Safdie Robert Clohessy Barbara Sukowa Al Thompson Grace Dunham Laurie Simmons Benjamin Eakeley Garland Hunter
artist friend dog man amusing charming emotional endearing cheeky creative new york city gallery office garden restaurant artistic struggle creative process creative block friendship small town
Frustrated by her lack of recognition, a middle-aged artist leaves the city for upstate New York to regain her creative spark.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
93 Minutes
Dakota Fanning Toni Collette Alice Eve Patton Oswalt Michael Stahl-David River Alexander Tony Revolori Jessica Rothe William Stanford Davis
autistic person caregiver writer traveler runaway amusing inspiring moving positive endearing nursing home car highway runway autism writing following your dreams competition road trip coming of age
A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition at Paramount Pictures.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama
USA
2009
90 Minutes
Chris Carmack Rachel Miner Melissa Jones Kevin Yon Lynch Travis Daniel Spink Sarah Habel Mia Serafino Hugh Maguire Richard Wilkinson Chantel Giacalone
time traveler girlfriend police detective sister mentor suspect suspenseful eerie thrilling family home police station car bathroom bar time travel murder investigation moral dilemma wrongful conviction consequences quest
Sam Reide uses his power to time travel to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's death.
Comedy, Drama
Austria|France|Iran|Iraq
2006
114 Minutes
Golshifteh Farahani Ismail Ghaffari Hedye Tehrani Allah-Morad Rashtian Farzin Sabooni Kambiz Arshi Mohamad Nahid Sadiq Behzadpoor Ali Ashraf Rezai
kurd singer son daughter woman police chief moving powerful sad iran bus village turkey iraq border politics performance music family travel
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
2007
109 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Jean-Pierre Darroussin Fanny Cottençon Alexia Barlier
painter gardener artist former classmate man friend amusing heartwarming charming uplifting lighthearted melodramatic france paris rural community countryside garden lake friendship relationships