Movies like Chapter Two

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling from abandonment, decides to follow the advice of a psychic. Sally, the daughter of Alfie and Helena, is unhappy in her marriage and develops a crush on her boss, while her husband, Roy, falls for a woman engaged to be married.

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

Jersey Girl (2004)

Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.

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

Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?

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

A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)

Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.

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

Is This Thing On? (2025)

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.

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

Which Brings Me to You (2023)

Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.

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

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)

A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.

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

Catch and Release (2006)

For a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.

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

Irreplaceable You (2018)

A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

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

Rosaline (2022)

Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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

Father of the Bride (2022)

A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.

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

Sidewalks of New York (2001)

The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives, the film weaves a humorous and biting commentary on the game of love -- easy to start, hard to finish.

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

Smart People (2008)

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.

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

Author! Author! (1982)

A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.

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

I Met a Girl (2020)

An aspiring musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his long-suffering brother to chase after him.

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

She's Having a Baby (1988)

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

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

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she's pursued by a younger man and maybe – just maybe – her son's science teacher.

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

Grace (2018)

A famous writer begins suffering from a crippling case of writer's block. His agent sends him a strange, belligerent woman to be his new assistant, hoping the change will inspire him.

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

Our Souls at Night (2017)

Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbour.

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

Young Adult (2011)

A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

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

The American President (1995)

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.

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

Choke (2008)

A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.

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

Sex Drive (2008)

A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.

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

"Push and Pull" (2026)

An adaptation of Denzel Howard's 2025 classic, "Push and Pull". Follows 2 men having an in-depth conversation, leading to an argument that tears not just feelings apart, but also friends.

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

Summer in Bethlehem (1998)

Ravishankar and Dennis live on Dennis’s estate in the hills. When Colonel Menon arrives with his daughters, Ravishankar wonders which one of them has been sending him amorous letters. Meanwhile, Dennis is attracted to the enigmatic Abhirami, but what does Abhirami want?

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

Boys on the Side (1995)

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.

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

Just Like Heaven (2005)

Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.

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

Harlem Nights (1989)

'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.

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

Plan de Viernes (2023)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Good Night, Sunshine (2024)

A human being sometimes needs to share and have his complaints heard, and feelings of shared fate can make humans empathize with each other.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama