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Movies that feel like The Awful Truth (1937)

If you loved The Awful Truth, the closest films we have are The Palm Beach Story (1942), Bringing Up Baby (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). All three share The Awful Truth'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, TCM and Philo and others, checked against today's data.

Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Leo McCareywittyplayfulromantictender

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The Palm Beach Story
1942 · dir. Preston Sturges
🍅 94%7.5comedy · romance

Both circle divorce and screwball comedy

A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire, J. D. Hackensacker III.

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Bringing Up Baby
1938 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 97%7.8comedy · romance

Both keep circling back to screwball comedy

David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.

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The Philadelphia Story
1940 · dir. George Cukor
🍅 100%7.8comedy · romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

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His Girl Friday
1940 · dir. Howard Hawks
🍅 99%7.8comedy · romance

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

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It Happened One Night
1934 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 98%8.1comedy · romance

Witty comedy in both cases

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.

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Pretty Woman
1990 · dir. Garry Marshall
🍅 65%7.1romance · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: romcom

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that turns into a week-long business arrangement. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges Edward's no-nonsense approach to life, and soon they are teaching each other – and falling in love!

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Amélie
2001 · dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
🍅 90%8.3comedy · romance

Romcom is the engine of both

The difference: 64 years apart, and the 2000s show

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

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Notting Hill
1999 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 84%7.2romance · comedy

Romance built on play, twice over

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.

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Grease
1978 · dir. Randal Kleiser
🍅 65%7.2romance · comedy

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?

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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
2018 · dir. Susan Johnson
🍅 96%7comedy · romance

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.

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Mamma Mia!
2008 · dir. Phyllida Lloyd
🍅 54%6.5comedy · romance

Both trade on wit more than on being comedy

A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.

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Coming to America
1988 · dir. John Landis
🍅 71%7.1comedy · romance

Romance built on play, twice over

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

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