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Movies that feel likeLife As We Know It (2010)

After a disastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have in common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling careers and social calendars, they'll have to find common ground while living under the same roof.

If you loved Life As We Know It, the closest films we have are Love Is All You Need (2012), Secretary (2002) and Sleepless in Seattle (1993). All three share Life As We Know It's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Girl on the Bridge (1999).

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If Life As We Know It hit the spot, these will too

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Love Is All You Need
2012 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 75%★ 6.5comedy · romance · dramaRent or buy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

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Secretary
2002 · dir. Steven Shainberg
🍅 78%★ 6.8romance · drama · comedyPrime Video

Both land romance and tenderness at once

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

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Sleepless in Seattle
1993 · dir. Nora Ephron
🍅 75%★ 6.8comedy · drama · romanceNetflix

One thread runs through both: grief

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?

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The Girl on the Bridge
1999 · dir. Patrice Leconte
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · comedy · romance

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

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P.S. I Love You
2007 · dir. Richard LaGravenese
★ 7drama · romance

Common ground: grief

The difference: Trades the wit of Life As We Know It for an angle of its own

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

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Lolita
1962 · dir. Stanley Kubrick
🍅 89%★ 7.5drama · comedy · romance

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

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Closer
2004 · dir. Mike Nichols
🍅 67%★ 7.1drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

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Remember Me
2010 · dir. Allen Coulter
🍅 26%★ 7.1drama · romancePeacock

Tender drama, and it commits to that

Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.

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Blue Valentine
2010 · dir. Derek Cianfrance
🍅 87%★ 7.3drama · romancePrime VideoParamount+

Contemplative romance in both cases

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

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The Apartment
1960 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 94%★ 8.3comedy · drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: romcom

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

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Midnight Sun
2018 · dir. Scott Speer
🍅 21%★ 6.6romance · dramaPrime VideoHulu

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 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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