Movies like The Mermaid

“The Mermaid (2016) is a Chinese 2010s romantic-comedy fantasy that stages a conflict between coastal development and mermaid habitats. It centers a developer's encroachment against mythic inhabitants while using constructed shoreline sets and saturated color grading to separate human and mythical registers. The film argues that intimate empathy can interrupt commercial encroachment, reframing coastal modernity as contested moral territory.”