Movies like Basic Impulse
If Basic Impulse hooked you with its comedy and romance, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Starting Over (1979)
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like this10 (1979)
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPoor Things (2023)
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRobotrix (1991)
When evil inventor Ryuichi Yamamoto transfers his mind into that of a powerful cyborg, he becomes a murderer and rapist. But when one of his victims, Police officer Selina Lam becomes super robot Eve-R27, she teams up with android sidekick Ann and together they seek to bring the criminally insane scientist to justice.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisButterflies Are Free (1972)
Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker moves away from his overprotective mother. After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner. Don's quick wit and good looks disarm the free-spirited Jill, and before long they're more than just friends. Will Mrs. Baker's incessant meddling destroy Don and Jill's budding relationship?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDear Galileo (2009)
College friends whose lives are at a crossroads decide to spend a year in Europe, working in Thai restaurants, and trying not to get deported.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Além das Aparências (2025)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & comedy
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! (1976)
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUrusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer (1984)
As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGirl of My Dreams (2021)
A sapphic relation between two very different young women. They talk, cook, play games, and eat dinner together.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Provocation (1971)
Angelos holds nothing in Greece. His sweetheart married his former friend, the woman who once was his first, killed. Here it is just waiting for disappointment, so all the money he buys a ticket to Australia. But while the young man is waiting for departure in his life to happen a new love experience. A chance meeting with Isabella on the ship that was carrying him to Athens, would be for Angelos another test, would lead to a meeting with the past and will be the key to unlocking the old crime.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnimus Anima (2005)
Tokio (Shugo Oshinari) and his sister Sui (Shiina Eihi) fall in love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Epitaph (2021)
In the Dark Ages a lone knight, haunted by the spirit of death, braves a dark forest to lay his wife’s ashes to rest.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Make Mine Mink (1960)
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2003)
Calvin and Leonard, two broke losers, are arrested for trying to rob rich old sisters Doris and Betty. The women have a change of heart, drop the charges and invite the the boys over to their mansion. Calvin decides he and Leonard should marry the women, and, when they soon die, live off the inheritance. The ladies, however, have run into their own financial troubles and wed the boys with plans of murdering them for insurance money.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Loose Screws (1985)
What happens when four high school screw-ups are forced to attend an academy summer school to graduate? They turn their scholastic sentence into a wacky game of trying to improve their scores... with the women. The ultimate conquest for the 100-point prize is the sexy new French teacher, but she proves to be a bigger challenge than their failing grades. The unforgiving principal foils every scheme, and their sidesplitting last chance is the academy's anniversary celebration.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrom Beginning to End (2009)
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Moment in June (2009)
Set in Thailand, between April-June 1999, 'A Moment In June' is a story of the fusion of six lives, a song that links them together, a hope of the second chance that might never come and a moment they all need to make a life-changing decision.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Lust (2023)
A couple takes advantage of the fact that her parents are having sex in the room upstairs so they can do the same in the TV room.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Geerbtes Glück (2004)
Hamburg landscape architect Ulrike inherits a vineyard near Barcelona, where she falls in love with Pablo. Her fatherly friend Joe advises her to be careful, because Pablo is the son of a real estate shark. Is the Spaniard just after her property? Until this is clarified, the drama takes many a bumpy turn.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
She Learned About Sailors (1934)
Shanghai nightclub singer Jean falls in love to a sailor, but after his ship left Shanghai, he is of the opinion that he cannot support her in the States, so he writes her in a letter, that he will not see her again, but two practical jokers intercept it and write another with an opposite content. Jean comes to the states, but her sailor doesn't acknowledge her, but the two don't give up trying to bring Jean and sailor back together.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Intimate Affairs (2002)
Edgar is an artist living in Paris during the 1920s who believes that sex is a subject of vital importance, but almost no one discusses it with the gravity it deserves. With this in mind, Edgar gathers together a panel of fellow creative types at the home of the wealthy tycoon Faldo and his oddly accented spouse Sasha for an evening in which they will discuss their erotic lives without self-serving wit or exaggeration.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSidetracking (2022)
Two young lovers are hitchhiking together towards their new home, when they suddenly break up and go separate ways. But as they talk to the different strangers that pick them up, they both start reconsidering their life decisions.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Love: Dashuri (2021)
A mid-life crisis of a 40-year-old man recently separated from his wife, who goes back to his country in search of a change and of himself.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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What are the best movies like Basic Impulse?
The closest matches to Basic Impulse are Starting Over, 10, Poor Things.
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