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Movies that feel like Airplane Mode (2020)

If you loved Airplane Mode, the closest films we have are Lulli (2021), Toscana (2022) and Let the Sunshine In (2017). All three share Airplane Mode's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

When Ana, an influencer, crashes her car while talking on the phone, she's shipped to her grumpy grandfather's farm -- and forced into a digital detox.

5.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. César Rodrigueswittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender
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Lulli
2021 · dir. César Rodrigues
4.9comedy · romance · fantasy

The same hand behind both of them: César Rodrigues

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Airplane Mode

After getting electrocuted by an MRI machine, an ambitious young medical student begins to hear the thoughts of others.

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Toscana
2022 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 83%5.7comedy · romance · drama

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 · dir. Claire Denis
🍅 87%6comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

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Through My Window: Across the Sea
2023 · dir. Marçal Forés
5.2romance · drama · comedy

Comedy built on tenderness, twice over

After a year of long-distance, Raquel and Ares reunite on a steamy beach trip. Faced with fresh flirtations and insecurities, will their love prevail?

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Squared Love
2021 · dir. Filip Zylber
🍅 20%5.1romance · comedy

Witty romance, and it commits to that

The difference: None of the stillness Airplane Mode is built on

A celebrity journalist and renowned womanizer starts to rethink his life choices after he falls for a mysterious model who leads a double life.

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

Both lean on play more than on drama

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

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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DJ Cinderella
2019 · dir. Bruno Garotti
4.7romance · comedy

Romantic romance in both cases

Cintia is modern princess, she's connected, decided and loves music. This "pop" princess used to live with their parents in a huge castle with a nice view to the city. Every night she looked through the window and watch the view dreaming with a prince she didn't met yet. But one day her castle crumbles with everything around her, after her parents divorce she went to live with her aunt and stops believing in love. What she didn't knew was that there was a charming prince in her history, that wanted to break the ice around our modern day cinderella.

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

Tender 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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Rich in Love
2020 · dir. Bruno Garotti
6romance · comedy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.

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

Drama built on play, twice over

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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The Invite
2026 · dir. Olivia Wilde
7.8comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on stillness more than on romance

Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?

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