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Movies that feel like You've Got Mail (1998)

If you loved You've Got Mail, the closest films we have are Notting Hill (1999), What Women Want (2000) and Home for the Holidays (1995). All three share You've Got Mail's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

🍅 69% Rotten Tomatoes6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nora Ephronwittyplayfulromantictender
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Notting Hill
1999 · dir. Roger Michell
🍅 84%7.2romance · comedy

Common ground in both: bookshop and romcom

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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What Women Want
2000 · dir. Nancy Meyers
🍅 53%6.5comedy · romance

Both are built on the same subject: romcom

Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.

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Home for the Holidays
1995 · dir. Jodie Foster
🍅 63%6.6comedy · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: christmas

The difference: Leans harder into drama than You've Got Mail does

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

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The Holiday
2006 · dir. Nancy Meyers
🍅 51%7comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: christmas

Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.

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

The same preoccupation in both: falling in love

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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The Family Stone
2005 · dir. Thomas Bezucha
🍅 52%6.3comedy · drama · romance

Common ground: falling in love

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003 · dir. Donald Petrie
🍅 42%6.5comedy · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

It's the battle of wills, as Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days, whereas Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now, the clock is ticking—and the wildly entertaining comedy smash is off and running in this irresistible tale of sex, lies and outrageous romantic fireworks!

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

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

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

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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

Playful romance in both cases

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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The Ugly Truth
2009 · dir. Robert Luketic
🍅 14%6.4comedy · romance

Romantic 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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Obvious Child
2014 · dir. Gillian Robespierre
🍅 90%6.7comedy · romance

Romance with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

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