7 Movies Like Twilight to Stream on Netflix, Hulu & More in October 2023
No one is a match for Edward and Bella, but these movies are clearly a throwback to their love story.
Whether the Twilight TV series is a reality or just a rumor remains to be confirmed. Nevertheless, the buzz, that the news of a possible TV adaptation of the famous YA novels by Stephenie Meyer has created, only shows that even now, almost 11 years after the last movie installment, people still love this dark romantic vampire saga.
But until there are official announcements and not just information from anonymous sources, we can only keep returning to the movies that launched the careers of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Or we can move on to the best Twilight-like movies available on streaming services in October 2023.
7. Divergent (2014)
Available on: Amazon, Apple TV+ (but/rent)
While similar to The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner in terms of ideas and target audience, Divergent is incredibly close to Twilight in terms of the perception of a young woman who seems fragile at first, but ultimately becomes the heroine of the day.
6. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
Available on: Hulu
Based on Seth Grahame-Smith's novel of the same name, this parody film takes the love story between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy to an alternate reality full of danger and zombies. What more could a Twilight fan ask for?
5. The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Available on: Netflix
Despite a very different setting, this movie, based on a Philip K. Dick short story, like Twilight, follows the forbidden love of two people whose sensual union is thwarted by the very forces of fate.
4. Practical Magic (1998)
Available on: Hulu
We've all loved following the powerful friendship between Bella and Alice, and that's exactly the dynamic conveyed in this 1998 classic about two witch sisters who use practical magic to confront the forces that threaten to destroy their dreams of happiness.
3. Warm Bodies (2013)
Available on: Max
Warm Bodies follows a love story between a zombie and a human. The protagonist, R, lacks the same charm as Edward, but is just as empathetic and selfless, yet has conflicting feelings about his existence.
2. Blood & Chocolate (2007)
Available on: Amazon Prime
Whereas in Twilight the antagonists were vampire covens, in Blood & Chocolate, loosely based on the novel by Annette Curtis Klause, the main villains hiding their existence are the werewolves of modern Romania.
1. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Available on: Max
E. L. James' novels were originally conceived as erotic fanfiction for Twilight, so don't be surprised if the dynamic between Anastasia and Grey eerily resembles a twisted version of Bella and Edward's romance.