Movies like The Color of Time (2012)
The best movies like The Color of Time (2012) are The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014) and Rebel in the Rye (2017). If The Color of Time hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Theory of Everything (2014)7.8/10 from 11,369 votes
- NewestTrain Dreams (2025)Released 2025
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014)
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014)
Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRebel in the Rye (2017)
The life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou Hurt My Feelings (2023)
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Pastoral (2016)
Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIf Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevolutionary Road (2008)
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMrs Lowry & Son (2019)
An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Elizabeth, whom he lived with all his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrain Dreams (2025)
A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFar from Heaven (2002)
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisConversations with Other Women (2006)
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTheir Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Theory of Everything (2014)
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiss Julie (2014)
Over the course of a midsummer night in 1890s Ireland, the unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBy the Sea (2015)
Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
Fisher Willow is the disliked Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSylvia (2003)
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLast Call (2020)
Last Call is a fictional account of the final days of exuberant and notorious Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as he sets out on a final poetry tour of New York. Desperate for money and with a wife and three children dependent on him, Thomas accepts a job believing it is beneath him. He spends his time in the city drinking at the White Horse Tavern and becoming increasingly ill between poetry readings. Everything comes to a head when he goes on a bender so extreme he cannot perform the last lecture, makes a scene at the bar, and has his final drink while ruminating on life, death, and the concept of love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Come Early Morning (2006)
A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisP.S. (2004)
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe End of the Affair (1999)
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInfinity (1996)
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Loving (2016)
In 1958, in the state of Virginia, the idea of interracial marriage was not only considered to be immoral to many, it was also illegal. When Richard and Mildred fall in love, they are aware of the eyes staring at them and the words said behind their backs. It's when they get married, however, that words and looks become actions, and the two are arrested. The couple decide to take their case all of the way to the Supreme Court in order to fight for their love. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe Live in Time (2024)
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNot Easily Broken (2009)
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Everlasting (2016)
Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNine Lives (2005)
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Color of Time?
The closest matches to The Color of Time are The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014) and Rebel in the Rye (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Color of Time?
People who watched The Color of Time most often go on to The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014) and Rebel in the Rye (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Color of Time?
The Theory of Everything (2014), rated 7.8/10 by 11,369 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Color of Time?
Train Dreams (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Color of Time?
Yes: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014), The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014) and Rebel in the Rye (2017).
How are movies similar to The Color of Time chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Color of Time, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.