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Movies that feel likeFocus (2015)

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

If you loved Focus, the closest films we have are Some Like It Hot (1959), Obvious Child (2014) and Trainwreck (2015). All three share Focus' romantic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Set It Up (2018).

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Some Like It Hot
1959 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 95%★ 8.2comedy · romance · crime

One thread runs through both: deception

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

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Obvious Child
2014 · dir. Gillian Robespierre
🍅 90%★ 6.7comedy · romance

Romantic where it counts, witty underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Focus does

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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Trainwreck
2015 · dir. Judd Apatow
🍅 84%★ 6.2comedy · romance

Playful romance in both cases

Ever since her father drilled into her head that monogamy isn't realistic, magazine writer Amy has made promiscuity her credo. As much as she enjoys an uninhibited life free of commitment, Amy is really in a rut. While writing a profile about charming and successful sports doctor Aaron Conners, she finds herself actually falling in love for the first time -- and what's more, Aaron seems to really like her too. Amy starts to wonder if it's time to clean up her act and face her fears.

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018 · dir. Ol Parker
🍅 80%★ 6.6comedy · romanceRent or buy

Comedy built on romance, twice over

Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

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Set It Up
2018 · dir. Claire Scanlon
🍅 92%★ 6.5romance · comedyNetflix

Both lean on wit more than on crime

Two overworked and underpaid assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

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Crazy Rich Asians
2018 · dir. Jon M. Chu
🍅 91%★ 6.9comedy · romanceMax

Playful romance, and it commits to that

An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.

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What Happens in Vegas
2008 · dir. Tom Vaughan
🍅 25%★ 6.1comedy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: rivalry

During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.

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Blended
2014 · dir. Frank Coraci
🍅 15%★ 6.5comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Recently divorced mom Lauren and widowed dad Jim let their friends push them into a blind date, which goes disastrously wrong. Unsurprisingly, neither wants to see the other ever again. However, fate intervenes when both Jim and Lauren, unbeknownst to each other, purchase one-half of the same vacation package at a South African resort for families, during spring break. They and their children are forced to share the same romantic suite and participate in a slew of family activities together.

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Happy New Year
2014 · dir. Farah Khan
🍅 40%★ 5.1crime · comedyNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: con artist

Six would-be thieves enter a prestigious dance competition as a cover for their larger goal of pulling off a major heist.

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Minha Vida em Marte
2018 · dir. Susana Garcia
★ 6.5comedy · romance

Witty crime, and it commits to that

Fernanda is married to Tom, with whom she has a five-year-old daughter, Joana. The couple is in the midst of wear and tear caused by living together for many years, which generates constant friction. Who helps Fernanda to overcome the crisis is her partner Aníbal, inseparable partner during the arduous journey between saving the marriage or putting an end to it.

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The Hustle
2019 · dir. Chris Addison
🍅 13%★ 5.5comedy · crimeParamount+

Common ground: con artist

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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How to Be Single
2016 · dir. Christian Ditter
🍅 45%★ 6.1comedy · romance

Different title, same corner of the shelf

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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