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Movies that feel like Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

If you loved Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the closest films we have are Just Like Heaven (2005), 13 Going on 30 (2004) and Gregory's Girl (1980). All three share Ghosts of Girlfriends Past's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Celebrity photographer Connor Mead lives life in the fast lane, committed to lifelong bachelorhood and simultaneous relationships with multiple women. On the eve of his younger brother Paul's wedding, Connor's mockery of love proves a real buzz-kill for everyone - including his childhood crush, Jenny, the one woman who always seemed immune to his considerable charms. Later that night, he gets a wake-up call from the ghost of his late Uncle Wayne, the hard-partying, legendary ladies' man who was Connor's mentor. Uncle Wayne has an urgent message which he delivers through three ghosts who guide Connor on an eye-opening tour of his romantic past, present and future. Along the way, they attempt to discern whether he will ever be able to change his ways -- and if there is any hope of him finding true love.

🍅 27% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mark Watersromantictenderwittyplayfuldreamlikewistful

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Just Like Heaven
2005 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 54%6.7comedy · romance · fantasy

The same hand behind both of them: Mark Waters

The difference: Reviewed even better

Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.

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13 Going on 30
2004 · dir. Gary Winick
🍅 65%6.3comedy · fantasy · romance

Common ground: photographer

After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. But soon Jenna realizes that adult life isn’t as easy as she hoped for.

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Gregory's Girl
1980 · dir. Bill Forsyth
🍅 95%7.1comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: first love

The difference: Lighter on dream logic

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

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The Invention of Lying
2009 · dir. Ricky Gervais
🍅 56%6.4comedy · fantasy · romance

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

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Midnight in Paris
2011 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 93%7.6fantasy · comedy · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010 · dir. Anna Boden
🍅 58%7.1comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on wistfulness more than on romance

The difference: Played as drama first

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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What's Your Number?
2011 · dir. Mark Mylod
🍅 23%6comedy · romance

Both are built on the same subject: womanizer

Ally Darling is realizing she's a little lost in life. Her latest romance has just fizzled out, and she's just been fired from her marketing job. Then she reads an eye-opening magazine article that warns that 96 percent of women who've been with 20 or more lovers are unlikely to find a husband. Determined to turn her life around and prove the article wrong, Ally embarks on a mission to find the perfect mate from among her numerous ex-boyfriends.

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The Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

Dreamlike comedy, and it commits to that

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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American Wedding
2003 · dir. Jesse Dylan
🍅 53%6.3comedy · romance

Fantasy built on romance, twice over

With high school a distant memory, Jim and Michelle are getting married — and in a hurry, since Jim's grandmother is sick and wants to see him walk down the aisle — prompting Stifler to throw the ultimate bachelor party. And Jim's dad is reliable as ever, doling out advice no one wants to hear.

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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
6.3comedy · romance · drama

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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LOL
2012 · dir. Lisa Azuelos
🍅 14%4.4drama · comedy · romance

Witty comedy in both cases

In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

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When We First Met
2018 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 45%6.4comedy · romance · fantasy

Playful fantasy, and it commits to that

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

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