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Movies that feel like Show Me Love (1998)

If you loved Show Me Love, the closest films we have are 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Love, Simon (2018) and A Summer's Tale (1996). All three share Show Me Love's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Disney Plus, fuboTV and YouTube TV and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 93% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Lukas Moodyssonwittyplayfulromantictendercontemplativewistful

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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 Β· dir. Gil Junger
πŸ… 72%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Growing up runs into teen movie in each of them

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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Love, Simon
2018 Β· dir. Greg Berlanti
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Coming out and lgbt, at the center of both

The difference: A 2010s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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 Summer's Tale
1996 Β· dir. Γ‰ric Rohmer
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Both keep circling back to growing up

Awaiting his girlfriend LΓ©na’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends β€” and flirts heavily with β€” two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie SolΓ¨ne, making for a rather complicated situation when LΓ©na finally arrives.

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Juno
2007 Β· dir. Jason Reitman
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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

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Punch-Drunk Love
2002 Β· dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.3romance Β· drama Β· comedy

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

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

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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both land stillness and wistfulness at once

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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The Girl on the Bridge
1999 Β· dir. Patrice Leconte
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.5drama Β· comedy Β· romance

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Missing the wistfulness of Show Me Love

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

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Love Actually
2003 Β· dir. Richard Curtis
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Romance built on play, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Jerry Maguire
1996 Β· dir. Cameron Crowe
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.3comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of romance, 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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Beginners
2011 Β· dir. Mike Mills
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.2drama Β· romance Β· comedy

Both built around coming out

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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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1995 Β· dir. Aditya Chopra
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both trade on tenderness more than on being comedy

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 fiancΓ©. 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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Say Anything...
1989 Β· dir. Cameron Crowe
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.3romance Β· comedy Β· drama

Teenage love is the engine of both

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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