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Movies that feel like Just Like Heaven (2005)

If you loved Just Like Heaven, the closest films we have are Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), Isn't It Romantic (2019) and The Invention of Lying (2009). All three share Just Like Heaven's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, TNT and TBS and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 54% Rotten Tomatoes6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mark Waterswittyplayfulromantictenderdreamlikedarkly funny

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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 27%5.8romance · comedy · fantasy

The same hand behind both of them: Mark Waters

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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.

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Isn't It Romantic
2019 · dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson
🍅 70%5.9comedy · fantasy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: romcom

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.

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

Both are built on the same subject: romcom

The difference: Not nearly as darkly funny as Just Like Heaven

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

Common ground: dark comedy

The difference: None of the romance Just Like Heaven is built on

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

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Just Like Heaven 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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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
6.7comedy · drama

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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Practical Magic
1998 · dir. Griffin Dunne
🍅 28%6.4romance · fantasy · comedy

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: blind date

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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Defending Your Life
1991 · dir. Albert Brooks
🍅 92%7.2romance · fantasy · comedy

Common ground: car accident

Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.

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

Both are built on the same subject: doctor

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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Freaky Friday
2003 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 88%6.4comedy · family · fantasy

Mark Waters directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.

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The Lake House
2006 · dir. Alejandro Agresti
🍅 35%6.8romance · drama · fantasy

Common ground: architect

When architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster. Their correspondence, only through the 'magical' mailbox, turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.

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