Soulmate - Films With Soulmate Themes

Films With Soulmate Themes

For the Seinfeld television episode, see The Soul Mate.

• Somewhere in Time (1980)

A modern-day playwright (Christopher Reeve) falls in love with the old photograph of an actress (Jane Seymour), and time-travels back to 1912 to meet her.

• Made in Heaven (1987)

Two souls (Timothy Hutton and Kelly McGillis) marry in heaven but are soon separated when one is born on earth. The other follows and has to reunite with the other before time runs out or endure eternal soul-searching.

• The Butcher's Wife (1991)

A small-town psychic with unusually strong telepathic capabilities believes that her true romantic lover will come from the sea. She believes him to be the first man that she sees ashore, a butcher, and sets off for New York with him. When she arrives in the city, she begins to use her psychic abilities on the neighborhood. This upsets the local psychiatrist, whose patients begin to use Marina's services more than his. Slowly, as she gets to know her neighbors, she begins to realize that she may have been wrong about her true love.

• Defending Your Life (1991)

A successful man dies and enters the afterlife, where he has five days to defend the life he has lived in order to not be sent back to Earth to live with another woman. He meets the woman he has waited for all his life to find, but he will lose her if he has to go back to earth again.

• Still Breathing (1998)

A puppeteer mysteriously dreams about a woman from Los Angeles, even though they have never met and live hundreds of miles apart. He travels to Los Angeles to meet her, and he insists that they are meant to be together.

• What Dreams May Come (1998)

Chris Nielson (Robin Williams) meets his true soul-mate/romantic lover Annie (Annabella Sciorra). He dies in an accident and goes to heaven and she later commits suicide. Can he find his soulmate in hell and save her? Alternate ending in DVD also deals with soulmate searching.

• Love Me If You Dare (2003)

A couple, Julien (Guillaume Canet) and Sophie (Marion Cotillard), play a game of 'dares' from an early age, until in their early 20's it becomes apparent that they are soul mates; while the game becomes a means of expressing their love to each other, it also causes tension and leads to a falling-out, until several years later.

• Mermaids (2003), a television film on the PAX Network (not to be confused the 1990 Cher film of the same name)

June (Sarah Laine), a mermaid, is deeply, romantically in love with a Harbor Patrol officer named Randy who happens to secretly be her soulmate. Her two other sisters comically complicate matters throughout the film.

• Just Like Heaven (2005)

In this film, a man and a woman were set for a date, but before the date the woman was involved in a car crash that caused her to go into a coma. Eventually, the man moves into her apartment not knowing whose apartment it is. The woman appears before him numerous times, to find that it is her departed soul or spirit, and he is the only one that can see her. Eventually, they realize that they were supposed to first meet on that blind date. Thus realising what was supposed to happen, he passionately kisses her real physical body in the hospital and she awakens to have no memory of him and his help. When they eventually touch hands, all of her memories come rushing back and they realize they were supposed to meet because of fate or destiny.