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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.

If you loved Love & Other Drugs, the closest films we have are Café Society (2016), Let the Sunshine In (2017) and Barfi! (2012). All three share Love & Other Drugs' contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Take This Waltz (2011).

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Café Society
2016 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 70%★ 6.6comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

A charmer drifts into a love that quietly reshapes him against a glossy backdrop

The difference: A 1930s Hollywood nostalgia trip, no illness raising the stakes

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 · dir. Claire Denis
🍅 87%★ 6comedy · drama · romance

A search for real love that resists the usual romcom shortcuts

The difference: A loosely plotted arthouse mood piece, not a pharma-world romance

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

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

A charismatic lead's disability becomes part of the love story, not the obstacle

The difference: A whimsical Bollywood fable stands far from pharma-sales cynicism

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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Adventureland
2009 · dir. Greg Mottola
🍅 89%★ 6.8comedy · drama · romance

Falling for a coworker turns a dead-end job into something that matters

The difference: A nostalgic 80s coming-of-age story, lower stakes than illness

It's the summer of 1987, and recent college grad James Brennan can't wait to begin his long-anticipated dream trip to Europe. Unfortunately, James' plans come to a screeching halt when his parents announce that they are unable to subsidize his trip. Forced to take a job at the local amusement park, James prepares for the worst summer ever, until he finds love with a captivating co-worker named Em.

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

Undeniable attraction complicates a life that already seemed settled

The difference: Centers on an affair and guilt, not a slow walk toward commitment

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

A couple stumbles toward what a real, grown-up life should look like

The difference: A cross-country search for home, no illness, no pharma backdrop

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

A quest for love that starts light and turns into something sincere

The difference: A breezy Italian travelogue with none of the illness or grit

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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The Postman
1994 · dir. Michael Radford
🍅 92%★ 7.8comedy · drama · romance

A plainspoken charmer wins someone over through unlikely persistence

The difference: A gentle Italian fable, decades removed from pharma-rep cynicism

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

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

A new love arrives tangled up with loss and a body running out of time

The difference: Centers on a father's late-life coming out, not a couple's courtship

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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Don Jon
2013 · dir. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
🍅 80%★ 6.5romance · comedy · dramaNetflixPrime Video

A charming player has to unlearn his own habits to let someone in

The difference: Porn-addiction hangup replaces illness as the real obstacle to love

A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008 · dir. Nicholas Stoller
🍅 84%★ 7.1comedy · romance · dramaApple TV+

The same mix in both: stillness, then wit

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When actress Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend Brian suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful receptionist Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous in Hawaii, but also Sarah.

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Welcome to the Sticks
2008 · dir. Dany Boon
🍅 67%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Playful and romantic in the same breath

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

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