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Movies that feel likePunch-Drunk Love (2002)

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

If you loved Punch-Drunk Love, the closest films we have are Licorice Pizza (2021), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) and Show Me Love (1998). All three share Punch-Drunk Love's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Summer's Tale (1996).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paul Thomas Andersonromantictendercontemplativewittyplayfulwistful
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Licorice Pizza
2021 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.1drama · comedy · romanceRent or buy

Paul Thomas Anderson directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010 · dir. Anna Boden
🍅 58%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: depression

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%★ 7.5comedy · romance · drama

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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A Summer's Tale
1996 · dir. Éric Rohmer
🍅 98%★ 7.6romance · drama · comedyMax

Contemplative where it counts, witty underneath

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · drama · romanceMax

Playful and wistful in the same breath

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

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Juno
2007 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 93%★ 7.4comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on romance

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
★ 6.3comedy · romance · drama

Tender drama in both cases

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 · dir. Gil Junger
🍅 72%★ 7.4comedy · romance · dramaDisney+

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 93%★ 7.7comedy · drama · romance

Romance built on wit, twice over

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

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LOL
2012 · dir. Lisa Azuelos
🍅 14%★ 4.4drama · comedy · romancePeacock

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

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Love, Simon
2018 · dir. Greg Berlanti
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy · drama · romanceMax

Both lean on wistfulness more than on comedy

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.

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A Walk to Remember
2002 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 30%★ 7.3drama · romance

Common ground: nostalgic

The difference: Trades the wit of Punch-Drunk Love for an angle of its own

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

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