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Movies like Happy Mail (2018)

The best movies like Happy Mail (2018) are Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020), What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023) and Players (2024). If Happy Mail hooked you with its romance and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. 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

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  2. What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

    Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

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

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  3. Players (2024)

    New York sportswriter Mack has spent years devising successful hook-up "plays" with her friends, but when she unexpectedly falls for one of her targets, she must learn what it takes to go from simply scoring to playing for keeps.

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

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  4. ¿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

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  5. 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

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  6. French Girl (2024)

    Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City. To Gordon’s dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck Gordon.

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

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  7. 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

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  8. The Disorderly Orderly (1964)

    Poor Jerome Littlefield. He wants to be a doctor – but that's not exactly the perfect career choice when you're hopelessly squeamish. So he settles for the job of orderly at the Whitestone Sanitarium, a career move that's guaranteed to keep the patients – and viewers – in stitches!

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

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  9. The Incredible Jessica James (2017)

    Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.

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

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  10. Maintenance Required (2025)

    Charlie, the fiercely independent owner of an all-female mechanic shop, is forced to reevaluate her future when a flashy corporate competitor moves in across the street. Seeking comfort, she turns to an anonymous online confidant - unaware she's confiding in Beau, the very rival threatening her business. As sparks fly both online and off, the truth threatens to blow everything apart.

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

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  11. 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

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  12. A Nice Girl Like You (2020)

    Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend. In an effort to prove him wrong, Lucy creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her on a whirlwind and surprising journey of self-discovery, friendship, and new love.

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

  13. This Little Love of Mine (2021)

    Laura Price is a successful San Francisco lawyer on the cusp of promotion – a far cry from her childhood growing up on a tropical island with best friends Chip and Gem. When the firm’s biggest client – Chip’s grandfather – asks Laura to travel to the island and deliver a contract to make Chip his heir, she leaves behind her practice and fiancé Owen to convince her childhood friend to sign a contract that will make him a billionaire.

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

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  14. My Teacher, My Love (2018)

    Ayuha Samaru is a high school student. She is honest and works hard at everything, no matter what. One day, she has trouble at a gyudon restaurant due to money. A man at the restaurant, Yoshitaka Hiromitsu, helps her out. The next day, she finds that Yoshitaka Hiromitsu has come to her school as a substitute teacher for her ill homeroom teacher. Ayuha Samaru now believes that Yoshitaka Hiromitsu is her fate in love. She keeps expressing her feelings to him.

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

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  15. 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

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  16. My Fake Boyfriend (2022)

    A young man in a tricky situation follows the advice of his unconventional best friend and uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to keep his awful ex-lover out of his life. But everything backfires when he meets the real love of his life, and breaking up with his fake boyfriend proves hard to do.

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

  17. Splendor (1999)

    Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible biceps. Who will she choose? Does she go for true love or cheap sex? She can't decide so she chooses both. But after managing to nurture a picture-perfect threesome, along comes Ernest, a rich movie director with deep baby blues that sweep Veronica off her feet. What's a girl to do now?

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

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  18. Chasing Papi (2003)

    Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored socialite Patricia -- spiral out of control, he suffers a mental breakdown. His doctor recommends that he choose just one girlfriend -- but can he choose in time before they discover his deception?

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

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  19. 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

  20. Watching the Detectives (2007)

    Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur.

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

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  21. Hands Across the Table (1935)

    A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

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

  22. Big Brown Eyes (1936)

    Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring and solve the murder of a baby.

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

  23. Kansas City Princess (1934)

    Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.

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

  24. Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

    Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

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

  25. 改邪归正 (2026)

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

  26. The Sucker (1965)

    In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friend's car from Naples to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

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  27. Mantrap (1926)

    A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

  28. Beauty Parlor (1932)

    Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets herself become a pawn of operators of a call-girl ring.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance

  29. Mr. Photographer (1953)

    Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

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  30. Daddy Wanted (1947)

    Holger Hallman, CEO of a weapons factory try to prevent his son Tom from dating a manucurist, Lydia. By mistake he try to pay off the wrong manicurist, Mary, who by coincidence has a fiancé named Tom.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Happy Mail?

The closest matches to Happy Mail are Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020), What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023) and Players (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Happy Mail?

Start with Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020), the closest match to Happy Mail.

What is the highest-rated movie like Happy Mail?

¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023), rated 8.4/10 by 378 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Happy Mail?

Yoh! Bestie (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there Japanese movies like Happy Mail?

Yes: My Teacher, My Love (2018).

How are movies similar to Happy Mail chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Happy Mail, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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