Movies like Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
The best movies like Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) are Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022), A California Christmas: City Lights (2021) and Anaïs in Love (2021). If Boyfriends and Girlfriends hooked you with its romance and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Woman Is a Woman (1961)7.3/10 from 418 votes
- NewestLove Has Come to Town (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchEverybody Loves Jeanne (2022)Also in French
Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022)
Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnaïs in Love (2021)
A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Old Lady (2014)
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChéri (2009)
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Wish (2019)
Every December in the small town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana a wooden wishing box is placed in the park as a Christmas tradition. After a night out together, Maddie encourages her sister Faith to put a wish in the box - a wish to experience true love for the first time. Faith and Maddie are surprised the next day when she meets the very handsome and eligible Andrew. As Christmas nears, Faith begins to wonder if Andrew is really perfect for her, or if the wish is leading her to her best friend, Wyatt.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove in Taipei (2023)
A young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Best Years of a Life (2019)
They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoliere (2007)
Molière, a down-and-out actor-cum-playwright up to his ears in debt. When the wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise, hilarity ensues.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnother Woman's Life (2012)
When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA California Christmas (2020)
With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisL.A. Without a Map (1999)
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHe Said, She Said (1991)
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPeace, 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhich 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust to Be Sure (2017)
Erwan, a strapping Breton who clears mines for a living, is shaken when he discovers that his father is not his father. Despite his affection for the man who raised him, he quietly sets out to find his biological father, and succeeds in locating Joseph, an endearing old codger he takes a liking to. Just when things look settled, another unexpected “bomb” hits Erwan in the form of Anna, an elusive nymph.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLuna (2018)
A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nearby countryside.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Got Life! (2017)
Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Art of Love (2011)
Several interconnected chapters follow a variety of Parisian couples navigating love, desire, and relationships. Isabelle, frustrated by a year of celibacy, rejects her friend Zoé’s offer to "borrow" her husband and instead impersonates their mutual friend Amélie, who cannot bring herself to sleep with her close friend Boris. Meanwhile, the lonely Achille is stunned when his alluring new neighbor appears at his door in a negligee, proposing an affair. Elsewhere, middle-aged Emmanuelle struggles with an overwhelming attraction to every handsome man she encounters, threatening her marriage, while a young couple wrestles with jealousy. Each chapter delves into the unpredictability of love with humor and poignancy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBen and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts (2025)
A couple in a long-distance relationship reunite for a road trip through Sri Lanka. Things go awry.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & comedy
The Soft Skin (1964)
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCassidy Blues (2020)
A Bonnie & Clyde criminal couple rob a movie theater on Christmas Eve, and have time to kill before their train, and escape plan, leaves the station; what's the worst that could happen? Enter the detective pair, Brooks and Candy; one of which is struggling with his recent nicotine kick; their only lead: a pack of mysterious cigarettes called Cassidy Blues.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
The Married Woman (1964)
A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRomance Anónimo (2025)
When a disenfranchised, world-famous photographer is interviewed by university students and presented with a portfolio of his life's work he is transported back to his very first photoshoot with a special yet mysterious subject.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & comedy
Love at Sea (1965)
During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each other. Will their love resist at a distance, each living his life, him in Brest with his friends, she in Paris who keeps waiting for him? An impossible love story and the cross-portrait of two cities, Paris and Brest, between the realism of the color images and the poetry infused by the sepia black and white images, lives to the rhythm of the nostalgia of the two lovers...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVuja de (2022)
Forced by the parents to be married, a young couple in Paris discover things about themselves as they mature through their romance together.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Empty (TBA)
Matthew (Steve Verhulst) an older, self-absorbed, boring, travel worker meets Anna (Sofia Sparta) a young, wild, multifaceted artist that is looking to push the boundaries of society for the acceptance of her own work.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
Love Has Come to Town (2026)
A series of vignetted conversations from strangers around Houston discussing the nature of a couple's relationship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Boyfriends and Girlfriends?
The closest matches to Boyfriends and Girlfriends are Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022), A California Christmas: City Lights (2021) and Anaïs in Love (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Boyfriends and Girlfriends?
Start with Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022), the closest match to Boyfriends and Girlfriends.
What is the highest-rated movie like Boyfriends and Girlfriends?
A Woman Is a Woman (1961), rated 7.3/10 by 418 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Boyfriends and Girlfriends?
Love Has Come to Town (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Boyfriends and Girlfriends?
Yes: Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022), Anaïs in Love (2021) and The Best Years of a Life (2019).
How are movies similar to Boyfriends and Girlfriends chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Boyfriends and Girlfriends, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.