Movies like Blind Date (2018)
The best movies like Blind Date (2018) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Just Like Heaven (2005). If Blind Date hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,241 votes
- NewestSecond Guessing Fate (2025)Released 2025
The Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrue Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJust 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 romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Object of My Affection (1998)
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlind Dating (2007)
Danny is a blind man who does not let his impairment get in the way of living his life to the fullest, except when it comes to love. Danny's brother sets him up on a series of blind dates, but all of them go disastrously wrong. Just when Danny is about to give up, he meets Leeza, a nurse who works for Danny's doctor. There is just one catch: Leeza, who is from India, is promised to another man.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007)
Broke and alone on New Year's Eve, Wilson just wants to spend the rest of a very bad year in bed. But, when his best friend convinces him to post a personal ad, he meets a woman bent on finding the right guy to be with at midnight.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlind Date (1987)
When bachelor Walter Davis is set up with his sister-in-law's pretty cousin, Nadia Gates, a seemingly average blind date turns into a chaotic night on the town. Walter's brother, Ted, tells him not to let Nadia drink alcohol, but he dismisses the warning and her behaviour gets increasingly wild. Walter and Nadia's numerous incidents are made even worse as her former lover David relentlessly follows them around town.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSingles (1992)
A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on love and face all the challenges of adulthood.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA F***ing Blind Date (2020)
A financial advisor goes on a blind date and meets a psychopathic woman with a secret desire to kill him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Something New (2006)
Kenya McQueen thought she had it all: a successful career, good friends and family. There was just one thing she didn't have under control: her love life. All that changes when she meets sexy, free-spirited Brian Kelly. But when her ideal man arrives on the scene, Kenya must decide between the relationship everyone expects and the romance no one expected.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSara & Jaimie (2021)
Two people go on a blind date
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Dog Lovers (2008)
Two potential lovers meet to talk about their affection for dogs... and genitalia.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Starting Over (1979)
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWoo (1998)
Woo is a woman in control of her world. She is smart, self-confident, sophisticated and snarky. And she doesn't have any trouble attracting members of the opposite sex. But for some reason no one ever sticks around. Woo meets Tim, a paralegal who is her complete opposite. They shouldn't click. However, Woo and Tim begin to bond when a series of weird and stressful calamities hits them while they are on their first date.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSee Jane Date (2003)
When editor Jane Grant receives a plus-one invitation to her cousin's wedding, she finds herself in a predicament. To one-up her old high school rival Natasha Nutley, Jane tells her about her perfect, charming and handsome boyfriend -- except he isn't real. Catching word of her "boyfriend," Jane's intrusive Aunt Ida demands he make an appearance at the wedding. Now, Jane must go on every date she can snag to find a man who fits the bill.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Just the Way You Are (2015)
When a professional matchmaker’s own marriage loses its spark, she seeks to recharge the relationship by asking her husband out on a blind date. As Mother’s Day approaches and their romance starts to rekindle, she wonders if her career-driven husband will finally learn to put his family’s needs before his job.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Second Guessing Fate (2025)
Gemma has given up on dating until a fortune teller predicts she's one last horrible date away from true love. When she goes on a date with Nick, anything and everything goes wrong, including crashing her car into a handsome and wealthy stranger.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
This Above All (1942)
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Sweethearts (1997)
Arliss goes to a coffee house to meet Jasmine on a blind date, but she's not quite what she seems.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Minsan, Minahal Kita (2000)
Experiencing problems in their marriages, Dianne and Albert unexpectedly meet and fall and love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Afternoon Off (1979)
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out campaigning for the presidency, so she takes off for the family's home in West Palm Beach and inadvertently becomes romantically entangled with earnest cowboy Stretch Willoughby. Neither the dalliance nor the cowboy fit with the upper class image projected by her esteemed father, forcing her to choose.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Blind Date?
The closest matches to Blind Date are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Just Like Heaven (2005). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Blind Date?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Blind Date.
What is the highest-rated movie like Blind Date?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,241 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Blind Date?
Second Guessing Fate (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Blind Date?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Just Like Heaven (2005).
How are movies similar to Blind Date chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Blind Date, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.