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Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
A married man brings home a mermaid after finding her while fishing. Discovering how hard she is to account for on land is part of the joke. Choose this older romantic fantasy if you want the comedy built around an impossible guest and the people trying to make sense of her.
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Mermaids (2003)
5.2/10on IMDb
Released
This 2003 television movie follows mermaid sisters responding to their father’s death. The prospect of living or spending time with humans complicates the ties among them. Pick it when you want an investigation alongside a story about staying hidden, rather than the unrelated Cher movie.
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Barbie in A Mermaid Tale (2010)
6.3/10on IMDb
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Merliah is already a surfer when she discovers that a part of her family lives underwater. The wish to keep a recognizable life on land has to accommodate a responsibility she cannot meet there. It is a colorful choice for viewers who like the flip side of the transformation story.
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Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2 (2012)
6.1/10on IMDb
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A competition in Australia gives Merliah a clear goal on land until danger in Oceana calls her back. Try it after the original for an underwater adventure driven by a conflict between what she has trained for and what her family needs.
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The Mermaid Princess (2015)
3.2/10on IMDb
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The mermaid princess helps people despite a warning about getting involved in human affairs. Pick the 2015 animated movie for a choice that starts with rescue and responsibility. It addresses what it costs to leave her own world to help someone again.
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Little from the Fish Shop (2015)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
The sea king’s family moves ashore and tries to live among people in a port city. The story gives Little’s household the work and compromises of making a home on land. Pick this Czech stop-motion film for a stranger and more melancholy variation on the fairy tale.
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Mermaid Got Married (1994)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
A teacher inadvertently swallows a mermaid’s magical pearl and leaves her stuck on land. She enrolls at his school to get it back. This Hong Kong comedy gives the mermaid her own practical reason to stay close while the two are deciding how much to trust each other.
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The King's Daughter (2022)
5.2/10on IMDb
Released
The mermaid is brought to court as part of a king’s hope of extending his life. Try it for a reversal of the usual bargain. On land the mermaid has something people want to take from her, and the king’s daughter has to decide what to do about it.
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Fishtales (2007)
4.7/10on IMDb
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A professor researching old love spells takes a trip to a Greek island and encounters a mermaid. Pick this family romantic adventure for a coastal setting where a relationship means accounting for the rules of the water alongside the everyday lives of people living beside it.
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My Fairy Tail Love Story (2018)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
In this Filipino romance, a curse turns Chantel into a mermaid after she disturbs coral. Her search for a way to become human again changes how she relies on a friend. Go here for a story in which human life is something the central character has already had and can now lose.
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Sabrina, Down Under (1999)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
The television movie takes Sabrina to a hidden mermaid community near the Great Barrier Reef. Its problem is what happens when humans searching the same waters can expose the group. Pick it if you want a light family feature about how merfolk keep a home secret while still needing outside help.
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The3Tails: A Mermaid Adventure (2015)
3.0/10on IMDb
Released
Three friends hide the fact that they can become mermaids. The risk of someone learning how they change turns a daily secret into a problem for more than one family. Try it for a small independent adventure focused on friendships and being able to move between two places.
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Dyesebel (1953)
Released
The 1953 Filipino film gives a human family a child born with a tail. The pressure on those parents to hide her makes this an older movie about living on land before a romance can even begin. Edna Luna plays the title character.
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Dyesebel (1978)
5.4/10on IMDb
Released
Alma Moreno plays Dyesebel in the 1978 version, also known as Sisid, Dyesebel, Sisid. The mermaid is born to people on land and faces dangerous rejection there. Choose it for an adaptation that puts the cost of passing as part of human society close to the beginning.
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Dyesebel (1990)
6.1/10on IMDb
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Alice Dixson’s 1990 Dyesebel comes ashore and falls for a human named Fredo. The return matters because her character was already driven away by fear of what she was. Pick it for a romance with a more direct problem of whether the world that rejected her will allow her back.
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Dyesebel (1996)
5.8/10on IMDb
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The 1996 film stars Charlene Gonzalez as Dyesebel. Set it beside the earlier versions for another handling of the romance with Fredo and the treatment of the mermaid on land. The objections she meets have a physical as well as an emotional consequence.
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The Shape of Water (2017)
7.3/10on IMDb
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The amphibious being is a merfolk-adjacent character whose survival on land depends on the people who can hide him. Elisa’s decision to help him turns a romance into a question about what both characters must give up.
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Song of the Sea (2014)
8.0/10on IMDb
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A young selkie needs a seal coat and a connection to the sea. The choice is about family as much as magic, since being able to move between the two worlds changes where she can stay.
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Luca (2021)
7.4/10on IMDb
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Two sea boys look human while their skin stays dry. Wanting to race, make friends and stay on land means trusting that the people around them can live with the truth about where they come from.
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The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
7.4/10on IMDb
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The story connects a missing child with an old family account of a selkie who lived on land. Each generation has to decide what it owes both sides of its history and what home can mean for a person linked to the sea.
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A Mermaid's Tale (2017)
4.8/10on IMDb
Released
Ryan befriends a young mermaid named Coral in a fishing town where family stories and suspicions get in the way. Their friendship gives both girls a reason to question the separation that made life safer for each side.
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