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Movies that feel likeItalian for Beginners (2000)

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.

If you loved Italian for Beginners, the closest films we have are Muriel's Wedding (1994), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011). All three share Italian for Beginners' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Late Marriage (2001).

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Muriel's Wedding
1994 · dir. P.J. Hogan
🍅 82%★ 7.3comedy · drama · romance

The same two preoccupations: daughter, and friendship

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.

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Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
1998 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 71%★ 7.5romance · drama · comedyNetflixPrime Video

Witty and playful in the same breath

Per her mother's last wish, an 8 year old girl sets out to reunite her father with his college best friend who was in love with him.

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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
2011 · dir. Zoya Akhtar
🍅 89%★ 8.2drama · comedy · romanceNetflix

Common ground: friendship

Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?

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Enchanted April
1991 · dir. Mike Newell
🍅 85%★ 7.3romance · drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

The difference: Easier on the wit than Italian for Beginners

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

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

Tender comedy, and it commits to that

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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Home for the Holidays
1995 · dir. Jodie Foster
🍅 63%★ 6.6comedy · drama · romance

Drama with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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.

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About a Boy
2002 · dir. Chris Weitz
🍅 93%★ 7.1drama · comedy · romance

Both lean on warmth more than on romance

Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you're never too old to grow up.

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

Both are built on the same subject: parents and children

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

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As Good as It Gets
1997 · dir. James L. Brooks
🍅 86%★ 7.7drama · comedy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: waitress

A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

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

Playful comedy in both cases

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994 · dir. Mike Newell
🍅 92%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

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