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Movies that feel like Love Is All You Need (2012)

If you loved Love Is All You Need, the closest films we have are Let the Sunshine In (2017), Barfi! (2012) and Home for the Holidays (1995). All three share Love Is All You Need's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

πŸ… 75% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Susanne Bierwittyplayfulromantictendercontemplative

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 Β· dir. Claire Denis
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

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

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Barfi!
2012 Β· dir. Anurag Basu
πŸ… 81%β˜… 8.1drama Β· romance Β· comedy

The same preoccupation in both: wedding

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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Home for the Holidays
1995 Β· dir. Jodie Foster
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.6comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

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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Take This Waltz
2011 Β· dir. Sarah Polley
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.5drama Β· comedy Β· romance

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Obvious Child
2014 Β· dir. Gillian Robespierre
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.7comedy Β· romance

Witty romance, and it commits to that

The difference: None of the stillness Love Is All You Need is built on

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2008 Β· dir. Aditya Chopra
πŸ… 78%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both lean on play more than on drama

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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Same Time, Next Year
1978 Β· dir. Robert Mulligan
πŸ… 40%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· drama Β· romance

One thread runs through both: chance meeting

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are happily married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each yearβ€”in the same hotel roomβ€”and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.

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After the Wedding
2006 Β· dir. Susanne Bier
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.7drama

Both are Susanne Bier's work, and they rhyme

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

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Italian for Beginners
2000 Β· dir. Lone Scherfig
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hairdresser

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

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Late Marriage
2001 Β· dir. Dover Koshashvili
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Romantic comedy 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 divorcΓ©e 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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Toscana
2022 Β· dir. Mehdi Avaz
πŸ… 83%β˜… 5.7comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Romance built on tenderness, twice over

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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Jab We Met
2007 Β· dir. Imtiaz Ali
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.9drama Β· comedy Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

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