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Movies that feel likeSleepless in Seattle (1993)

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?

If you loved Sleepless in Seattle, the closest films we have are Secretary (2002), The Girl on the Bridge (1999) and The Apartment (1960). All three share Sleepless in Seattle'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 Meet John Doe (1941).

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

Both land wit and play 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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The Girl on the Bridge
1999 · dir. Patrice Leconte
🍅 88%★ 7.4drama · comedy · romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic 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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The Apartment
1960 · dir. Billy Wilder
🍅 94%★ 8.3comedy · drama · romance

The same city underneath both: New York City

The difference: 33 years apart, and the 1960s show

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

Tender and melancholy in the same breath

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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Harold and Maude
1971 · dir. Hal Ashby
🍅 86%★ 7.8comedy · drama · romance

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.

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

Both are built on the same subject: grief

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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Life As We Know It
2010 · dir. Greg Berlanti
🍅 29%★ 6.5comedy · romance · drama

One thread runs through both: grief

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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.

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City Lights
1931 · dir. Charlie Chaplin
🍅 95%★ 8.5comedy · drama · romancePrime VideoMax

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

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

Contemplative romance in both cases

The difference: Easier on the wit than Sleepless in Seattle

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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Meet John Doe
1941 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 92%★ 7.6drama · comedy · romancePrime Video

Both lean on romance more than on comedy

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

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

Common ground: parents and children

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

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

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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