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Movies that feel like A Summer's Tale (1996)

If you loved A Summer's Tale, the closest films we have are 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Show Me Love (1998) and Juno (2007). All three share A Summer's Tale's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Disney Plus, fuboTV and YouTube TV and others, checked against today's data.

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Éric Rohmerromantictendercontemplativewittyplayfulwistful

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If A Summer's Tale hit the spot, these will too

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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 · dir. Gil Junger
🍅 72%7.4comedy · romance · drama

Both keep circling back to growing up

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%7.5comedy · romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: growing up

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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Juno
2007 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 93%7.4comedy · drama · romance

Romantic and tender in the same breath

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

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Punch-Drunk Love
2002 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 79%7.3romance · drama · comedy

Both land stillness and wit at once

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 93%7.7comedy · drama · romance

The same mix in both: play, then wistfulness

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

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Love, Simon
2018 · dir. Greg Berlanti
🍅 92%7.5comedy · drama · romance

Both trade on romance more than on being romance

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2010s show

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.

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Love Actually
2003 · dir. Richard Curtis
🍅 65%7.5comedy · romance · drama

Holiday is the engine of both

The difference: Not nearly as wistful as A Summer's Tale

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

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Jerry Maguire
1996 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 86%7.3comedy · drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.

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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1995 · dir. Aditya Chopra
🍅 100%8comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

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The Girl on the Bridge
1999 · dir. Patrice Leconte
🍅 88%7.5drama · comedy · romance

Witty romance in both cases

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

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Hitch
2005 · dir. Andy Tennant
🍅 68%6.6comedy · drama · romance

Both built around romantic

Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.

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Strictly Ballroom
1992 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
7.2comedy · drama · romance

Drama built on play, twice over

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

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