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Movies that feel like Late Marriage (2001)

If you loved Late Marriage, the closest films we have are Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Love Actually (2003) and Secretary (2002). All three share Late Marriage'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 fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium and Paramount Plus Essential and others, checked against today's data.

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dover Koshashviliwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender
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Bridget Jones's Diary
2001 · dir. Sharon Maguire
🍅 80%6.8comedy · romance · drama

The same mix in both: wit, then play

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. Her charming boss takes an interest in her, and she cannot stop running into a rather disagreeable acquaintance whom Bridget cannot help finding quietly attractive.

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Love Actually
2003 · dir. Richard Curtis
🍅 65%7.5comedy · romance · drama

Both land stillness and romance at once

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

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Secretary
2002 · dir. Steven Shainberg
🍅 78%6.9romance · drama · comedy

Comedy built on tenderness, twice over

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

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Jerry Maguire
1996 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 86%7.3comedy · drama · romance

Witty drama, and it commits to that

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.

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Hitch
2005 · dir. Andy Tennant
🍅 68%6.6comedy · drama · romance

Playful romance in both cases

Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara Melas, a tabloid reporter digging for dirt on Allegra Cole's love life. When Sara discovers Hitch's connection to Albert – now Allegra's boyfriend – it threatens to destroy both relationships.

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The Girl on the Bridge
1999 · dir. Patrice Leconte
🍅 88%7.5drama · comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

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(500) Days of Summer
2009 · dir. Marc Webb
🍅 86%7.6comedy · drama · romance

Both trade on romance more than on being drama

Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.

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The Proposal
2009 · dir. Anne Fletcher
🍅 45%6.8comedy · romance · drama

Tender romance in both cases

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

When she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.

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Away We Go
2009 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 67%7drama · comedy · romance

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.

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Love & Other Drugs
2010 · dir. Edward Zwick
🍅 49%6.7drama · comedy · romance

Both trade on play more than on being drama

Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

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Strictly Ballroom
1992 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
7.2comedy · drama · romance

Romance built on stillness, twice over

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

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Beginners
2011 · dir. Mike Mills
🍅 86%7.2drama · romance · comedy

Both work the same romance

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.

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