Movies like Jeden deň pre starú paniu (1966)

The Best You Can (2025)

Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by the arrival of sharp but chronically underachieving security guard Stan Olszewski in this smart rom-com that reunites Bacon and Sedgwick on screen for the first time in 20 years.

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

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

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

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

Love Accidentally (2022)

Alexa and Jason are competing for a position at an advertising firm when their partners break up with them. Alexa mistakenly texts Jason, and they start a phone-only relationship. When they meet and the truth comes out, will true love prevail?

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

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

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

Irreplaceable You (2018)

A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

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

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

The Trial (2010)

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life and those around him forever.

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

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

Breaking & Exiting (2018)

Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, sending both of them into a darkly comedic journey of self discovery and love.

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

Mumford (1999)

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients!

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

He 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

The Baltimorons (2025)

A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

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

The Giant Mechanical Man (2012)

An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.

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

Edges of the Lord (2001)

A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.

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

Enemies, a Love Story (1989)

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

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

Why Did I Get Married Again? (2026)

The couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did we get married again?"

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

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

Angus (1995)

Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him

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

Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan (2025)

When a blind musician and a theatre artist meet on a train and travel through the majestic Himalayas, they fall in love regardless of their apparent flaws. What happens when life takes over?

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

Deserter (1992)

During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade. However, it turns out that he is less haunted by war horrors than with some sentimental skeletons in the closet. He meets his former comrade and best friend who is AWOL, but can't report him because he had an affair with his wife.

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

Song of Triumphant Love (1915)

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

Attachment Parenting (TBA)

A psychologist couple whose parenting philosophy is put to the ultimate test when they’re forced to counsel a crime boss's dysfunctional family while being held hostage at a hotel.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Pete's Dragon (1977)

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

GrimTrax (2024)

For the first time ever, we’ve assembled five shorts about death, loneliness, and dismemberment into one big, old-fashioned yukfest. On their own, they would have been too depressing to put out into the world. But together, they form into a Voltron of hilarity, if Voltron was eventually going to die facedown in the snow, sad and alone.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Death and the Cherry Tree (1968)

Three children play games on a deserted beach.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Dread (2009)

Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama