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Movies that feel likeSierra Burgess Is a Loser (2018)

A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win over their crushes.

If you loved Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, the closest films we have are Let the Sunshine In (2017), Toscana (2022) and Bridget Jones's Baby (2016). All three share Sierra Burgess Is a Loser'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 Take This Waltz (2011).

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

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

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

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

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

Comedy with a pulse of tenderness, in both cases

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

Drama built on wit, 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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Café Society
2016 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 70%★ 6.6comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Playful romance, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on stillness more than on comedy

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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Airplane Mode
2020 · dir. César Rodrigues
★ 5.2comedy · drama · romanceNetflix

Romantic drama in both cases

When Ana, an influencer, crashes her car while talking on the phone, she's shipped to her grumpy grandfather's farm -- and forced into a digital detox.

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Through My Window
2022 · dir. Marçal Forés
★ 5.5romance · drama · comedyNetflix

Tender romance, and it commits to that

Raquel's longtime crush on her next-door neighbor turns into something more when he starts developing feelings for her, despite his family's objections.

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Last Christmas
2019 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 46%★ 6.5comedy · drama · romanceHulu

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

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.

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

Drama built on play, twice over

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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The Big Sick
2017 · dir. Michael Showalter
🍅 98%★ 7.5comedy · drama · romancePrime Video

Contemplative romance in both cases

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

The shared currency is romance

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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