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Movies that feel like Adventureland (2009)

If you loved Adventureland, the closest films we have are Love Is All You Need (2012), Away We Go (2009) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008). All three share Adventureland's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

It's the summer of 1987, and recent college grad James Brennan can't wait to begin his long-anticipated dream trip to Europe. Unfortunately, James' plans come to a screeching halt when his parents announce that they are unable to subsidize his trip. Forced to take a job at the local amusement park, James prepares for the worst summer ever, until he finds love with a captivating co-worker named Em.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Greg Mottolawittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender

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Love Is All You Need
2012 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 75%6.5comedy · romance · drama

The same preoccupation in both: infidelity

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

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Away We Go
2009 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 67%7drama · comedy · romance

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2008 · dir. Aditya Chopra
🍅 78%7.2comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

A boring, reserved husband secretly becomes a lively, confident stranger to woo his own unaware wife only to make her fall head over heels for his dashing alter ego.

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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2006 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 92%6.9drama · comedy · romance

Tender comedy, and it commits to that

Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.

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Take This Waltz
2011 · dir. Sarah Polley
🍅 79%6.5drama · comedy · romance

Witty drama in both cases

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

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Beginners
2011 · dir. Mike Mills
🍅 86%7.2drama · romance · comedy

Romance with a pulse of play, in both cases

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.

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That Awkward Moment
2014 · dir. Tom Gormican
🍅 23%6.1comedy · romance

Common ground: young adult

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Best pals Jason and Daniel indulge in casual flings and revel in their carefree, unattached lives. After learning that the marriage of their friend Mikey is over, they gladly welcome him back into their circle. The three young men make a pact to have fun and avoid commitment. However, when all three find themselves involved in serious relationships, they must keep their romances secret from one another.

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The Family Stone
2005 · dir. Thomas Bezucha
🍅 52%6.3comedy · drama · romance

Comedy built on stillness, twice over

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

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Letters to Juliet
2010 · dir. Gary Winick
🍅 42%6.5comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on drama

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

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Secretary
2002 · dir. Steven Shainberg
🍅 78%6.9romance · drama · comedy

Tender romance, and it commits to that

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

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Volver
2006 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 91%7.6comedy · drama · romance

Witty comedy in both cases

Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.

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Drinking Buddies
2013 · dir. Joe Swanberg
🍅 84%6.1romance · drama · comedy

Both lean on play more than on drama

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.

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