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Movies that feel like The Break-Up (2006)

If you loved The Break-Up, the closest films we have are Yes Man (2008), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and 27 Dresses (2008). All three share The Break-Up's romantic and tender feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Hulu and Apple TV and others, checked against today's data.

Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest 'why can't you do this one little thing for me?' argument, Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. What follows is a hilarious series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and undermining tricks – all encouraged by the former couple's friends and confidantes …and the occasional total stranger! When neither ex is willing to move out of their shared apartment, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until one of them reaches breaking point.

🍅 34% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peyton Reedromantictenderwittyplayful

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Yes Man
2008 · dir. Peyton Reed
🍅 44%6.8comedy · romance

The same hand behind both of them: Peyton Reed

Carl Allen, a guy whose life is going nowhere, signs up for a self-help program based on one simple covenant: say yes to everything…and anything.

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My Best Friend's Wedding
1997 · dir. P.J. Hogan
🍅 75%6.4comedy · romance

Common ground in both: chicago, illinois and new love

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.

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27 Dresses
2008 · dir. Anne Fletcher
🍅 41%6.1comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: new love

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall
2008 · dir. Nicholas Stoller
🍅 84%7.1comedy · romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: break-up

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Break-Up does

When actress Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend Brian suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful receptionist Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous in Hawaii, but also Sarah.

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004 · dir. Beeban Kidron
🍅 27%6comedy · romance

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.

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Along Came Polly
2004 · dir. John Hamburg
🍅 27%6comedy · romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down, as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there.

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Valentine's Day
2010 · dir. Garry Marshall
🍅 18%5.8comedy · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day.

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She's the Man
2006 · dir. Andy Fickman
🍅 45%6.4comedy · romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on comedy

Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.

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What Happens in Vegas
2008 · dir. Tom Vaughan
🍅 25%6.1comedy · romance

Witty romance in both cases

During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other after a night of drunken abandon. They are then compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.

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Little Fockers
2010 · dir. Paul Weitz
🍅 10%5.5comedy · romance

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house.

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

Romance built on romance, 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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The Ugly Truth
2009 · dir. Robert Luketic
🍅 14%6.4comedy · romance

Tender comedy, and it commits to that

A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.

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