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Movies that feel likeYesterday (2019)

A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was forgotten.

If you loved Yesterday, the closest films we have are You, the Living (2007), The Mermaid (2016) and Pitch Perfect 2 (2015). All three share Yesterday's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is White Christmas (1954).

🍅 64% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Danny Boylewittyplayfuldreamlikestylishromantic
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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If Yesterday hit the spot, these will too

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You, the Living
2007 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 98%★ 7.4drama · comedy · music

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

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The Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

Dreamlike and romantic in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less stylish than Yesterday does

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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Pitch Perfect 2
2015 · dir. Elizabeth Banks
🍅 66%★ 6.4comedy · music

Comedy built on style, twice over

The Bellas are back, and they are better than ever. After being humiliated in front of none other than the President of the United States of America, the Bellas are taken out of the Aca-Circuit. In order to clear their name, and regain their status, the Bellas take on a seemingly impossible task: winning an international competition no American team has ever won. In order to accomplish this monumental task, they need to strengthen the bonds of friendship and sisterhood and blow away the competition with their amazing aca-magic! With all new friends and old rivals tagging along for the trip, the Bellas can hopefully accomplish their dreams.

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Begin Again
2014 · dir. John Carney
🍅 83%★ 7.4comedy · music · romancePeacock

Witty music, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Yesterday does

Gretta, a budding songwriter, finds herself alone after her boyfriend Dave ditches her. Her life gains purpose when Dan, a record label executive, notices her talent.

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Funny Face
1957 · dir. Stanley Donen
🍅 85%★ 7music · comedy · romance

Romance with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

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An American in Paris
1951 · dir. Vincente Minnelli
🍅 95%★ 7.1music · romance · comedy

Both lean on style more than on fantasy

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

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When We First Met
2018 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 45%★ 6.4comedy · romance · fantasyNetflix

Dreamlike comedy in both cases

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

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We Are Your Friends
2015 · dir. Max Joseph
🍅 40%★ 6.2drama · music · romance

Music built on romance, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Yesterday does

Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, his seemingly clear path to success gets complicated when he starts falling for his mentor's girlfriend, jeopardizing his new friendship and the future he seems destined to fulfill.

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The Invention of Lying
2009 · dir. Ricky Gervais
🍅 56%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · romance

Witty fantasy, and it commits to that

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

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Sing Street
2016 · dir. John Carney
🍅 95%★ 7.9romance · drama · musicMaxStarz

Playful romance, and it commits to that

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

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Lulli
2021 · dir. César Rodrigues
★ 4.9comedy · romance · fantasyNetflix

Both lean on dream logic more than on comedy

After getting electrocuted by an MRI machine, an ambitious young medical student begins to hear the thoughts of others.

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White Christmas
1954 · dir. Michael Curtiz
🍅 76%★ 7.5comedy · music · romancePrime Video

Stylish music in both cases

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

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