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Movies that feel like Same Time, Next Year (1978)

If you loved Same Time, Next Year, the closest films we have are Annie Hall (1977), Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Say Anything... (1989). All three share Same Time, Next Year's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on YouTube TV, Amazon Prime Video and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

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 year—in the same hotel room—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.

🍅 40% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Mulliganwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender

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Annie Hall
1977 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 97%7.9comedy · drama · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

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Strictly Ballroom
1992 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
7.2comedy · drama · romance

Based on play or musical is the engine of both

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

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Say Anything...
1989 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 98%7.3romance · comedy · drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Average student and eternal optimist Lloyd Dobler seeks to capture the heart of Diane Court, a beautiful but unattainable valedictorian classmate. He surprises just about everyone - including himself - when she returns the sentiment. However, Diane's divorced, over-protective father soon begins to disapprove of the match, and Lloyd realises that it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.

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Harold and Maude
1971 · dir. Hal Ashby
🍅 86%7.8comedy · drama · romance

Tender comedy, and it commits to that

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.

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Two for the Road
1967 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 82%7.4drama · romance · comedy

Drama built on wit, twice over

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

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Jerry Maguire
1996 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 86%7.3comedy · drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of play, in both cases

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.

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Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 · dir. Blake Edwards
🍅 87%7.5comedy · romance · drama

Both trade on stillness more than on being comedy

Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1995 · dir. Aditya Chopra
🍅 100%8comedy · drama · romance

Romantic drama in both cases

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

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Bridget Jones's Diary
2001 · dir. Sharon Maguire
🍅 80%6.8comedy · romance · drama

Tender romance, and it commits to that

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2000s show

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. Her charming boss takes an interest in her, and she cannot stop running into a rather disagreeable acquaintance whom Bridget cannot help finding quietly attractive.

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Love Actually
2003 · dir. Richard Curtis
🍅 65%7.5comedy · romance · drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

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Secretary
2002 · dir. Steven Shainberg
🍅 78%6.9romance · drama · comedy

Drama built on play, twice over

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

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The Apartment
1960 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 93%8.3comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative romance in both cases

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

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