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Movies that feel likeHome for the Holidays (1995)

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

If you loved Home for the Holidays, the closest films we have are Late Marriage (2001), Let the Sunshine In (2017) and Strictly Ballroom (1992). All three share Home for the Holidays' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Same Time, Next Year (1978).

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Late Marriage
2001 · dir. Dover Koshashvili
🍅 88%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romanceRent or buy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 · dir. Claire Denis
🍅 87%★ 6comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

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Strictly Ballroom
1992 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
★ 7.2comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Comedy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

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Same Time, Next Year
1978 · dir. Robert Mulligan
🍅 40%★ 7.2comedy · drama · romance

Witty drama, and it commits to that

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are happily married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2008 · dir. Aditya Chopra
🍅 78%★ 7.2comedy · drama · romanceNetflix

Both lean on play more than on romance

A boring, reserved husband secretly becomes a lively, confident stranger to woo his own unaware wife only to make her fall head over heels for his dashing alter ego.

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Italian for Beginners
2000 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 87%★ 7comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative comedy in both cases

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

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The Family Stone
2005 · dir. Thomas Bezucha
🍅 52%★ 6.3comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Common ground in both: holiday and christmas

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

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Take This Waltz
2011 · dir. Sarah Polley
🍅 79%★ 6.5drama · comedy · romanceNetflix

Drama built on romance, twice over

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

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Jab We Met
2007 · dir. Imtiaz Ali
🍅 100%★ 7.9drama · comedy · romance

Tender romance, and it commits to that

A depressed wealthy businessman and a spunky carefree young woman embark on an unexpected journey that changes their lives.

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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1980 · dir. Vladimir Menshov
🍅 40%★ 8drama · comedy · romance

Witty comedy in both cases

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.

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Kal Ho Naa Ho
2003 · dir. Nikkhil Advani
🍅 75%★ 7.9comedy · drama · romanceNetflixPrime Video

Playful drama in both cases

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

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Toscana
2022 · dir. Mehdi Avaz
🍅 83%★ 5.7comedy · romance · dramaNetflix

Contemplative romance in both cases

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

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