Movies like Little Fish (2021)
The best movies like Little Fish (2021) are Needle in a Timestack (2021), Unleashed (2017) and The One I Love (2014). If Little Fish hooked you with its romance and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)8.1/10 from 16,974 votes
- NewestDaniela Forever (2025)Released 2025
Needle in a Timestack (2021)
Nick and Janine live in bliss until her ex warps time to try to tear them apart by using Nick's old girlfriend. As Nick's memories and reality disappear, he must decide what he's willing to sacrifice to save -- or let go of -- everything he loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnleashed (2017)
When a cosmic event turns Emma's dog and cat into two perfect guys, Emma reconsiders her outlook on dating, hilariously works out her trust issues, and ultimately learns to love herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe One I Love (2014)
Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisUpstream Color (2013)
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Me (2025)
In a story that spans billions of years, a buoy and a satellite meet online long after humanity’s extinction. As they learn what life was like on Earth, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwan Song (2021)
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBacklight (2010)
Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDownsizing (2017)
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn Your Eyes (2014)
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 connection that cannot be broken.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Beast (2024)
In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTurn Me On (2024)
In a world where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a single daily vitamin, one young couple skips their dose and discovers love, joy, sex, and all the baggage that comes with it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & romance
Perfect Sense (2011)
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFoe (2023)
Henrietta and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Will they risk their relationship & personal identity for a chance to survive in a new world?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEternal (2024)
Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon – a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor – he chooses career over love. Years later, during his mission, he experiences a vision of what his life could have been like if he made a different choice and his new obsession becomes to get his old life and love back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Another Earth (2011)
On the night a duplicate Earth is discovered in the solar system, the lives of a young woman and an accomplished composer become tragically connected after a fatal accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUranus 2324 (2024)
Bonded in their youth and separated by tragedy, an astronaut and a free diver bend the laws of space and time in their efforts to be together again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHer (2013)
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisComet (2014)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNever Let Me Go (2010)
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEquals (2015)
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Midnight Sky (2020)
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSpace Oddity (2023)
A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but finds his plans compromised by his feelings for a woman who brings him down to Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Nobody (2009)
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Time Capsule (2022)
In the near future, a politician fresh off an electoral loss escapes to his family's summer lake house. His vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who has just returned from a 20-year space voyage and hasn't aged a day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Moonshot (2022)
In a future where Mars is terraformed and colonized by the best humanity has to offer, two very different college students wind up joining forces and sneak onboard a space shuttle to the red planet in order to be united with their significant others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow I Live Now (2013)
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Think We're Alone Now (2018)
After a catastrophe destroys most of humanity, recluse Del lives in his small, empty town, content with the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until an interloper, young Grace, disrupts his solitude.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe In Between (2022)
After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaniela Forever (2025)
A man struggling to come to terms with the sudden death of his girlfriend in an accident six months prior signs up for a sleep trial that allows him to reconstruct his life with her through the use of lucid dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Little Fish?
The closest matches to Little Fish are Needle in a Timestack (2021), Unleashed (2017) and The One I Love (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Little Fish?
People who watched Little Fish most often go on to Needle in a Timestack (2021), Unleashed (2017) and The One I Love (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Little Fish?
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), rated 8.1/10 by 16,974 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Little Fish?
Daniela Forever (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Little Fish?
Yes: Needle in a Timestack (2021), Unleashed (2017) and The One I Love (2014).
How are movies similar to Little Fish chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Little Fish, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.