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Movies that feel like Sierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018)

If you loved Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, the closest films we have are Let the Sunshine In (2017), A Dog's Will (2000) and Anyone but You (2023). All three share Sierra Burgess Is a Loser's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win over their crushes.

🍅 58% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ian Samuelswittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender
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Let the Sunshine In
2017 · dir. Claire Denis
🍅 87%6comedy · drama · romance

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

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A Dog's Will
2000 · dir. Guel Arraes
8.6comedy · drama · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: based on play or musical

The difference: Leans further into fantasy

The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.

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Anyone but You
2023 · dir. Will Gluck
🍅 53%6.1romance · comedy

One thread runs through both: based on play or musical

The difference: Lighter on stillness

After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding in Australia. So they do what any two mature adults would do: pretend to be a couple.

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Toscana
2022 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 83%5.7comedy · romance · drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

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Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 · dir. Sharon Maguire
🍅 78%6.4drama · comedy · romance

Comedy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn when she meets Jack. A week later, she runs into Mark before she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.

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Airplane Mode
2020 · dir. César Rodrigues
5.2comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on wit more than on drama

When Ana, an influencer, crashes her car while talking on the phone, she's shipped to her grumpy grandfather's farm -- and forced into a digital detox.

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Through My Window
2022 · dir. Marçal Forés
5.5romance · drama · comedy

Playful romance, and it commits to that

Raquel's longtime crush on her next-door neighbor turns into something more when he starts developing feelings for her, despite his family's objections.

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Drinking Buddies
2013 · dir. Joe Swanberg
🍅 84%6.1romance · drama · comedy

Comedy built on stillness, twice over

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.

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Through My Window: Across the Sea
2023 · dir. Marçal Forés
5.2romance · drama · comedy

Romantic drama in both cases

After a year of long-distance, Raquel and Ares reunite on a steamy beach trip. Faced with fresh flirtations and insecurities, will their love prevail?

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

Tender romance, and it commits to that

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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Love Is All You Need
2012 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 75%6.5comedy · romance · drama

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

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

Both lean on play more than on drama

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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