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Movies like The Great Role (2004)

The best movies like The Great Role (2004) are Madame (2017), The Good House (2021) and Rosaline (2022). If The Great Role hooked you with its romance and comedy, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Madame (2017)

    Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid as a noblewoman to even out the number of guests. When the maid runs off with a wealthy guest, Anne must chase her around Paris to thwart the joyous and unexpected love affair.

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

  2. The Good House (2021)

    When wry New England realtor Hildy Good rekindles a romance with her old high-school flame, Frank Getchell, it ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets that propel Hildy toward a reckoning with the one person she's been avoiding for decades: herself. Based on the best-selling novel by Ann Leary.

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

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  3. 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

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  4. 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

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  5. L.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

  6. Our Story (1984)

    Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...

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

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  7. La Ronde (1950)

    An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

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

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  8. Rendezvous in Paris (1995)

    Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.

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

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  9. Chéri (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

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  10. Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023)

    Extrovert Corinne convinces Jane, a shy, talented baker, to commit to a year of bringing cakes to bars, to help her meet people and build confidence. But when Corinne receives a life-altering diagnosis, the pair faces a challenge unlike anything they've experienced before.

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

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  11. Moliere (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

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  12. Love 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

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  13. How to Please a Woman (2022)

    When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

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

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  14. A 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

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  15. 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

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  16. 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

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  17. 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

  18. The 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

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  19. 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

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  20. Diary of a Fleeting Affair (2022)

    A single mother and a married man enter into an affair with the understanding that their relationship is purely sexual. Though they agree the relationship has no future, they find themselves increasingly drawn into each other's company.

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

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like The Great Role?

The closest matches to The Great Role are Madame (2017), The Good House (2021) and Rosaline (2022). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after The Great Role?

Start with Madame (2017), the closest match to The Great Role.

What is the highest-rated movie like The Great Role?

Rosaline (2022), rated 7.1/10 by 346 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like The Great Role?

Which Brings Me to You (2023) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there French movies like The Great Role?

Yes: Our Story (1984), La Ronde (1950) and Rendezvous in Paris (1995).

How are movies similar to The Great Role chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Great Role, 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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