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Movies that feel likeLet the Sunshine In (2017)

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

If you loved Let the Sunshine In, the closest films we have are Toscana (2022), Home for the Holidays (1995) and Barfi! (2012). All three share Let the Sunshine In's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Late Marriage (2001).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Claire Deniswittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender
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Toscana
2022 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 83%★ 5.7comedy · romance · dramaNetflix

The same mix in both: wit, then play

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

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Home for the Holidays
1995 · dir. Jodie Foster
🍅 63%★ 6.6comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

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Barfi!
2012 · dir. Anurag Basu
🍅 84%★ 8.1drama · romance · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: love

The heartwarming tale of Barfi, a charming deaf-mute young man from 1970s Darjeeling, and two unalike women who can't help but fall for him.

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Take This Waltz
2011 · dir. Sarah Polley
🍅 79%★ 6.5drama · comedy · romanceNetflix

Tender comedy, and it commits to that

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

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Late Marriage
2001 · dir. Dover Koshashvili
🍅 88%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romanceRent or buy

Witty drama in both cases

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.

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The Souvenir
2019 · dir. Joanna Hogg
🍅 90%★ 6.4drama · romanceRent or buy

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Trades the wit of Let the Sunshine In for an angle of its own

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2008 · dir. Aditya Chopra
🍅 78%★ 7.2comedy · drama · romanceNetflix

Comedy built on play, twice over

A boring, reserved husband secretly becomes a lively, confident stranger to woo his own unaware wife only to make her fall head over heels for his dashing alter ego.

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Airplane Mode
2020 · dir. César Rodrigues
★ 5.2comedy · drama · romanceNetflix

Both lean on romance more than on drama

When Ana, an influencer, crashes her car while talking on the phone, she's shipped to her grumpy grandfather's farm -- and forced into a digital detox.

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Jab We Met
2007 · dir. Imtiaz Ali
🍅 100%★ 7.9drama · comedy · romance

Tender romance, and it commits to that

A depressed wealthy businessman and a spunky carefree young woman embark on an unexpected journey that changes their lives.

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Drinking Buddies
2013 · dir. Joe Swanberg
🍅 84%★ 6.1romance · drama · comedyNetflixPrime Video

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.

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Through My Window: Across the Sea
2023 · dir. Marçal Forés
★ 5.2romance · drama · comedyNetflix

Both lean on play more than on drama

After a year of long-distance, Raquel and Ares reunite on a steamy beach trip. Faced with fresh flirtations and insecurities, will their love prevail?

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With Every Heartbeat
2011 · dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining
★ 6.8romance · drama

A 2010s answer to the same itch

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

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