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Movies that feel like Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

If you loved Bridget Jones's Baby, the closest films we have are How to Be Single (2016), Obvious Child (2014) and Medicine for Melancholy (2009). All three share Bridget Jones's Baby'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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn when she meets Jack. A week later, she runs into Mark before she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.

πŸ… 78% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Sharon Maguirecontemplativewittyplayfulromantictender
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Β· Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

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How to Be Single
2016 Β· dir. Christian Ditter
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.1comedy Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: one-night stand

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

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Obvious Child
2014 Β· dir. Gillian Robespierre
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.7comedy Β· romance

One thread runs through both: pregnancy

The difference: Missing the stillness of Bridget Jones's Baby

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

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Medicine for Melancholy
2009 Β· dir. Barry Jenkins
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.6drama Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: one-night stand

Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a deeper connection.

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 Β· dir. Claire Denis
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6comedy Β· drama Β· romance

The same mix in both: stillness, then wit

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

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008 Β· dir. Nicholas Stoller
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Playful where it counts, romantic underneath

When actress Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend Brian suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful receptionist Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous in Hawaii, but also Sarah.

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The Worst Person in the World
2021 Β· dir. Joachim Trier
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.7drama Β· romance Β· comedy

Common ground: pregnancy

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

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Love Is All You Need
2012 Β· dir. Susanne Bier
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

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 Β· dir. Joe Swanberg
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.1romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Both lean on stillness more than on comedy

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 β€œfriends” and β€œmore than friends” really blurry? Beer.

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Through My Window: Across the Sea
2023 Β· dir. MarΓ§al ForΓ©s
β˜… 5.2romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Witty romance, and it commits to that

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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Paterson
2016 Β· dir. Jim Jarmusch
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.3drama Β· comedy Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.

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Take This Waltz
2011 Β· dir. Sarah Polley
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.5drama Β· comedy Β· romance

Romantic comedy 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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Letters to Juliet
2010 Β· dir. Gary Winick
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.5comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

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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