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Movies that feel likeLast Christmas (2019)

Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.

If you loved Last Christmas, the closest films we have are Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), Café Society (2016) and Let the Sunshine In (2017). All three share Last Christmas' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Toscana (2022).

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Bridget Jones's Baby
2016 · dir. Sharon Maguire
🍅 78%★ 6.4drama · comedy · romanceParamount+Starz

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and new. For once, Bridget has everything completely under control. Then her love life takes a turn when she meets Jack. A week later, she runs into Mark before she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch - she's not sure of the identity of her baby's father - Mark or Jack.

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Café Society
2016 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 70%★ 6.6comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

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

Tender comedy in both cases

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

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

Common ground in both: holiday and christmas

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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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Paterson
2016 · dir. Jim Jarmusch
🍅 96%★ 7.3drama · comedy · romancePrime Video

Witty drama, and it commits to that

A week in the life of Paterson, a poet bus driver, and his wife Laura, a very creative artist, who live in Paterson, New Jersey, hometown of many famous poets and artists.

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

Romance built on play, 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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The Family Stone
2005 · dir. Thomas Bezucha
🍅 52%★ 6.3comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Common ground: holiday

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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Letters to Juliet
2010 · dir. Gary Winick
🍅 42%★ 6.5comedy · drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: romcom

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

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

Comedy with a pulse of stillness, 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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The Big Sick
2017 · dir. Michael Showalter
🍅 98%★ 7.5comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Both lean on romance more than on drama

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

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Drinking Buddies
2013 · dir. Joe Swanberg
🍅 84%★ 6.1romance · drama · comedyNetflixPrime Video

Romance built on tenderness, twice over

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.

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Youth
2015 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 73%★ 7.3comedy · drama · romance

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

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