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Movies that feel like Isn't It Romantic (2019)

If you loved Isn't It Romantic, the closest films we have are Rich in Love (2020), The Mermaid (2016) and How to Be Single (2016). All three share Isn't It Romantic's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 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.

For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Todd Strauss-Schulsonwittyplayfuldreamlikeromantictenderdarkly funny

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

The same preoccupation in both: romance

The difference: None of the dream logic Isn't It Romantic is built on

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Both rooted in New York City

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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Lulli
2021 · dir. César Rodrigues
4.9comedy · romance · fantasy

The same mix in both: dream logic, then romance

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

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Ninotchka
1939 · dir. Ernst Lubitsch
🍅 95%7.8comedy · romance

The same two preoccupations: satire, and amused

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

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The Ugly Truth
2009 · dir. Robert Luketic
🍅 14%6.4comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: romcom

A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.

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Anyone but You
2023 · dir. Will Gluck
🍅 53%6.1romance · comedy

Common ground: romcom

After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.

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Last Night
1998 · dir. Don McKellar
🍅 85%7.1comedy · romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: satire

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Isn't It Romantic does

Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018 · dir. Ol Parker
🍅 80%6.6comedy · romance

Tender comedy in both cases

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

Both are built on the same subject: romance

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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Valentine's Day
2010 · dir. Garry Marshall
🍅 18%5.8comedy · romance

Romance built on wit, twice over

Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day.

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About Endlessness
2019 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 95%6.8drama · fantasy · comedy

Darkly funny fantasy, and it commits to that

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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