Movies like It Happened One Summer

Relationship Goals (2026)

When TV producer Leah Caldwell aims to become the first woman running New York's top morning show, her ex competes for the same role. Leah stays focused on her career, until chemistry with her ex challenges her priorities.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

Playing It Cool (2014)

A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

The List (2023)

After her fiance sleeps with a celebrity on his free pass list, Abby Meyers, with nothing but five names and a fantasy shared by millions, sets out for Los Angeles to sleep with someone from hers.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

My Sassy Girl (2008)

A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

Sundown (2016)

High school seniors Logan and Blake prepare for an epic Spring Break as they travel to the beautiful and exotic Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta hoping to hook up with their high school crushes. Surrounded by hot girls in teeny bikinis, the guys are truly in heaven. After meeting at a club, Logan falls for a mysterious local beauty named Gaby but then realizes the next morning, when his grandfather’s Rolex watch is missing, that she was after more than just his heart.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

Gidget (1959)

Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated with his sport and starts to hang out with his clique. Although they make fun of her at first, they teach her to surf and soon she's accepted and given the nickname "Gidget". But it's hard work to become more than a friend to Moondoggie.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

Boot Camp (2024)

Unathletic Whitney Carmichael signs up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself and falls for her personal trainer. She then finds the strength to embrace her true self and ignore the others' expectations.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)

A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

Desperados (2020)

A panicked young woman and her two best friends fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau, who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

Whisky Galore (2016)

The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)

Lu, a conformist woman in her forties, learns that her 15-year partner has been having extramarital affairs. Starting from scratch, she gets involved in an unexpected relationship with a young womanizer.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

Dinner in America (2022)

An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

The Wrong Paris (2025)

Dawn thinks she's joining a dating show in Paris, France, only to land in Paris, Texas. She has an exit plan — until sparks fly with the cowboy bachelor.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

Yoh! Bestie (2026)

Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

Someone Great (2019)

An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one outrageous last adventure in New York City.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

Blue Hawaii (1961)

Just discharged GI Chad Gates returns to Hawaii, where he becomes a tour guide, defying his mother's wishes for him to join the family business.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

Love Is in the Air (2023)

A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy

Let's Make Love (1960)

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

I Love You Again (1940)

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

Crossing Delancey (1988)

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a pickle vendor.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance

The Old Cinderella (2014)

A mature woman meets her dream prince after getting her divorce, but doubts his intentions, while her ex-husband tries to rekindle the love they shared before he cheated on her. It is up to her to decide whom she will pick.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance

Emma (1996)

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightley.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & comedy

What Women Want (2000)

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.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance

The Lady Eve (1941)

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance

24 Hour Party People (2002)

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Adaptation. (2002)

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Young and Innocent (1937)

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance

The Things of Life (1970)

The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance

Naše XI. (1936)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Will You Marry My Wife? (2016)

Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He decides to concentrate on the future of his beloved family. Shuji Mimura's final plan is to find the best man to marry his wife Ayako.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance