Movies like Hope Springs (2003)
The best movies like Hope Springs (2003) are Tamara Drewe (2010), Leap Year (2010) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003). If Hope Springs hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNotting Hill (1999)7.3/10 from 6,983 votes
- NewestLove of the Irish (2025)Released 2025
Tamara Drewe (2010)
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLeap Year (2010)
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnder the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Give It a Year (2013)
After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Matchmaker (1997)
Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wedding Cottage (2023)
A wedding guide creator must convince an uninspired artist and owner of a special wedding cottage to renovate the rundown cottage to host a contest-winning couple for their dream wedding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Love Is a Four Letter Word (2007)
Margaret and Martin Harper, both sixty years old, are filing for divorce, but plan to keep everything as civilized as possible. Complications arise when their respective attorneys, the equally cynical Emily Bennett and Kenton Rhodes, unexpectedly fall in love, throwing an extra kink into the proceedings both in and out of the courtroom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Decoy Bride (2011)
A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYour Sister's Sister (2011)
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl in the Café (2005)
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHampstead (2017)
Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhisky 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: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisUndertaking Betty (2002)
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLetters to Juliet (2010)
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFaraway (2023)
Zeynap Altin is at the end of her tether: she works far too much and is not valued at all by her husband, daughter and father. To make matters worse, the funeral home dressed her beloved late mother in a man's suit instead of her favorite dress. Enough is enough: Zeynep flees from Munich to the previously unknown holiday home on a Croatian island that her mother secretly bought years ago - with the hope of finding quiet, peace and herself there. If only the previous owner Josip, a rough islander, didn't still live on the same property and annoy her with his views and wisdom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDefinitely, Maybe (2008)
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Love Letter (1999)
In the sleepy New England town of Loblolly By The Sea, a letter has arrived that is going to wake things up. It is a love letter - ardent, sensual... and unsigned. As the letter falls into different hands, residents of the small town to eye one another with renewed interest - wondering who it's for and who it's from. Determined to find the letter's author, Helen MacFarquhar begins a quest that will open her life to a new chapter involving two decidedly different men: George, an old friend from her past, and Johnny, a young man very much in her present. Unexpectedly, one mysterious love note has the power to unlock some startling secrets, leaving a trail of wonderful surprises as it turns an entire town upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove Across Time (2024)
Chelsea is an American visiting England for work. While inspecting an old estate for its real estate potential, she notices some strange lights in the cellar. She discovers a "portal" of sorts that shows her the past (end of 1700s) and the dashing owner of the old estate. When an accident occurs, the gentleman (Charles) comes through and gets stuck in the present day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Notting Hill (1999)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Engagement Ring (2005)
A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and find that their attraction is hindered by the old feud.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Holiday (2006)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStandby (2014)
Twenty-something Alan (Gleeson) is down on his luck. Stood up at the altar and recently fired from his banking job, he finds himself working with his mother as a part-time tourist advisor at Dublin Airport. It's there he comes face to face with first love Alice (Paré), stuck on standby for a flight home to New York. Their summer romance ended eight years previously with Alan promising to return to the US one day. He never did, and they haven't spoken since. Seizing his chance, Alan convinces a reluctant Alice to stay one more night in Dublin. Over the course of an unforgettable evening, they may just realise that they are more compatible than ever. But time is running out on this brief encounter. When does an unexpected second chance, become the one you've always been looking for? - Written by Wildcard Distribution
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQuartet (2012)
Cissy, Reggie, and Wilf are in a home for retired musicians. Every year, there is a concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday and they take part. Jean, who used to be married to Reggie, arrives at the home and disrupts their equilibrium. She still acts like a diva, but she refuses to sing. Still, the show must go on, and it does.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFour Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweet Home Alabama (2002)
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThen Came You (2020)
A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Love of the Irish (2025)
Tired of her bad luck, Fiona takes her mom on a trip to Ireland to turn things around where she meets a charming single dad who helps her make her own luck.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Easy Virtue (2008)
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWords and Pictures (2014)
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hope Springs?
The closest matches to Hope Springs are Tamara Drewe (2010), Leap Year (2010) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hope Springs?
People who watched Hope Springs most often go on to Tamara Drewe (2010), Leap Year (2010) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hope Springs?
Notting Hill (1999), rated 7.3/10 by 6,983 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hope Springs?
Love of the Irish (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Hope Springs?
Yes: Tamara Drewe (2010), Leap Year (2010) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003).
How are movies similar to Hope Springs chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hope Springs, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.