Movies like You Are My Pet (2011)
The best movies like You Are My Pet (2011) are What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023), The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure (2010) and My Love, My Bride (2014). If You Are My Pet hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHarold and Maude (1971)7.6/10 from 1,265 votes
- NewestYoh! Bestie (2026)Released 2026
- In KoreanMy Love, My Bride (2014)Also in Korean
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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure (2010)
One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged marriage to the brooding and sinister Kah and is secretly in love with a young elephant handler named Alu.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Love, My Bride (2014)
When Young-min and Mi-young marry each other after they graduate college, they experience different challenges that test their relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoh! 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCyrano Agency (2010)
The successful Cyrano Agency helps people, who can't find a date, to get a love life — until they are hired to help Sang-yong.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPenny Pinchers (2011)
Ji-woong is a loser who can't find a job so he lies to his mother for money, but one day she abruptly cuts him off and he becomes homeless. That same day, salvation arrives in the form of Hong-sil who's extremely stingy. Her hobby is visiting the bank to make savings deposits, and her specialty is selling empty glass bottles and old newspapers for cash.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Italy (2018)
Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnly the Lonely (1991)
Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToo Beautiful to Lie (2004)
A professional lady con makes herself the pharmacist's fiancée overnight, and faces a disastrous blemish in her impeccable con-woman career.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMood of the Day (2016)
A train ride brings two unlikely souls together as Bae, a committed partner of a serious 10-year relationship, sees her world turned upside down by the charming playboy Kim. Seated together on a business trip from Seoul to Busan, the two find themselves on an adventure to remember.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Jacked (2018)
Maya, a headstrong 28-year-old with artistic ambitions – a strong contrast to what her father Ed wants: a dutiful daughter to run the family store. Ed is shocked when Maya takes her assertions of independence a step further and decides to travel to Africa for inspiration and returns with a fiancé who is not quite what he seems.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoot 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNothing Serious (2021)
Rookie journalist Woo-ri takes on a dating and relationships column and meets Ja-young through an app, where their casual encounter begins to deepen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other End of the Line (2007)
An employee at an Indian call-center travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirl on a Bicycle (2013)
Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside down.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove, 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRelationship 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinding Mr. Destiny (2010)
A man sets up the First Love Agency to help people locate their long-lost first love. But then he ends up falling in love with his first client.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHarold and Maude (1971)
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPerhaps Love (1984)
A teenage boy becomes infatuated with an older woman who he discovers to be a prostitute.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & comedy
I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPaalum Pazhavum (2024)
After a woman falls for a younger man, the couple find themselves facing discrimination due to their age gap.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Kaguya-sama Final: Love Is War (2021)
After years of intense mental battle, the war between Kaguya and Shirogane heads towards its crashing end. Who will be the first to admit their love?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Not in Textbooks 5 (2019)
A school romantic comedy about the cohabitation life of a popular high school girl in a class and a Japanese language teacher who is swayed by her in the fifth in the series "Not in Textbooks!". Aya Shirakaba, a high school girl who attends Otome High School, and homeroom teacher Arihiko Tairaku lived together at the command of the leader of Yakuza, the father of Aya. One weekend, Tairaku invites a longing colleague, Yayoi Satsuki, to date, which was also Aya's birthday. Aya learns that Tairaku is going to date May. Ayaka Morikawa, who plays Aya Shirakaba, and Ryouma Baba, who plays Arihiko Tairaku, continue to star in the series, while Moemi Katayama and Anna Hongo have played the role of May, who is now gravure idol Natsuki Sena.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
I Love America (2022)
Lisa, a single woman, decides to take a chance on love again by catapulting her life from Paris to Los Angeles. Her children flew the coop and her famous, yet absent mother just passed, so Lisa needs a big change. She reunites with her best friend Luka, who found success in America but is struggling to find his own prince charming. Luka embarks on a mission to give Lisa a fresh start by creating a profile for her on a dating website.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisGood Sex (TBA)
After spending a decade in a failed relationship, successful couples’ therapist Ally is turning 40 and is pushed, kicking and screaming, by her best friend back into the hopeless New York dating scene. But Ally finds her life pulled in opposing directions as she falls into a steamy fling with a 20-something Brooklyn hipster just as she begins a promising, more conventional relationship with Alan, a successful 50-something in Manhattan.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMakoto-chan (1980)
A series of interconnected vignettes regarding Makoto Sawada, an energetic yet socially inept kindergartner, and his long-suffering family. Makoto strives to receive the title of his school's "Best Child" award, resulting in chaos and misunderstandings wherever he goes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like You Are My Pet?
The closest matches to You Are My Pet are What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023), The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure (2010) and My Love, My Bride (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after You Are My Pet?
Start with What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023), the closest match to You Are My Pet.
What is the highest-rated movie like You Are My Pet?
Harold and Maude (1971), rated 7.6/10 by 1,265 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like You Are My Pet?
Yoh! Bestie (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like You Are My Pet?
Yes: My Love, My Bride (2014), Cyrano Agency (2010) and Penny Pinchers (2011).
How are movies similar to You Are My Pet chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside You Are My Pet, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.