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Movies that feel likeObvious Child (2014)

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

If you loved Obvious Child, the closest films we have are Lisbela and the Prisoner (2003), Cold Comfort Farm (1995) and Trainwreck (2015). All three share Obvious Child'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 On the Town (1949).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gillian Robespierrewittyplayfulromantic
5 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video

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Lisbela and the Prisoner
2003 · dir. Guel Arraes
★ 7.6comedy · romance

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 82%★ 7.2comedy · romance

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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

Both are built on the same subject: one-night stand

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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Igby Goes Down
2002 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 75%★ 6.8comedy · dramaPrime Video

New York City shapes both of them

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Obvious Child does

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

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Set It Up
2018 · dir. Claire Scanlon
🍅 92%★ 6.5romance · comedyNetflix

Romance with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Two overworked and underpaid assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

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On the Town
1949 · dir. Gene Kelly
🍅 94%★ 7.3comedy · romance

Both lean on play more than on comedy

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

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How to Be Single
2016 · dir. Christian Ditter
🍅 45%★ 6.1comedy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: one-night stand

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

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Minha Vida em Marte
2018 · dir. Susana Garcia
★ 6.5comedy · romance

Romantic romance in both cases

Fernanda is married to Tom, with whom she has a five-year-old daughter, Joana. The couple is in the midst of wear and tear caused by living together for many years, which generates constant friction. Who helps Fernanda to overcome the crisis is her partner Aníbal, inseparable partner during the arduous journey between saving the marriage or putting an end to it.

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Rich in Love
2020 · dir. Bruno Garotti
★ 6romance · comedyNetflix

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Working incognito at his rich dad's company to test his own merits, Teto falls for Paula and tells her he grew up poor, a lie that spins out of control.

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Squared Love
2021 · dir. Filip Zylber
🍅 20%★ 5.1romance · comedyNetflix

Playful romance in both cases

A celebrity journalist and renowned womanizer starts to rethink his life choices after he falls for a mysterious model who leads a double life.

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DJ Cinderella
2019 · dir. Bruno Garotti
★ 4.7romance · comedyRent or buy

The shared currency is romance

Cintia is modern princess, she's connected, decided and loves music. This "pop" princess used to live with their parents in a huge castle with a nice view to the city. Every night she looked through the window and watch the view dreaming with a prince she didn't met yet. But one day her castle crumbles with everything around her, after her parents divorce she went to live with her aunt and stops believing in love. What she didn't knew was that there was a charming prince in her history, that wanted to break the ice around our modern day cinderella.

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Isi & Ossi
2020 · dir. Oliver Kienle
★ 6.4romance · comedyNetflix

Both know what they want from comedy

Isi and Ossi couldn't be any more different: She's a billionaire's daughter from Heidelberg, he's a struggling boxer from the nearby town of Mannheim. But when Isi meets Ossi, the two quickly realize that they can take advantage of one another: She dates the broke boxer to provoke her parents and get them to fund a long-desired chef training in New York. He tries to rip off the rich daughter to finance his first professional boxing match. Their plans soon develop into emotional chaos that challenges everything the two believe to know about money, career and love.

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