Movies Like The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
If you liked The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991), a comedy and romance movie directed by Ben Lewin, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and romanceTeenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to…
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Focus (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also romance and comedyNicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
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The Woman in Red (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romanceWhen a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak…
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Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romanceA slice of life story that follows a large Italian family on Christmas Eve as they prepare for the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes, reminisce about the past and seek love in the future.
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Chasing Papi (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romancePlayboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored…
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Orgazmo (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyA devout Mormon living in L.A. becomes a pornographic actor after his martial arts moves impress a big-time director.
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Keeping the Faith (2000)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romanceBest friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now…
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The Moon Is Blue (1953)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romanceTwo aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claiming that she plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night. Both men determine to find a way around her objections.
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Let's Make Love (1960)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceWhen billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
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Girl on a Bicycle (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romancePaolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day…
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Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedyA fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.
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Watching the Detectives (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romanceNeil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets…
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¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and romanceLu, a conformist woman in her forties, learns that her 15-year partner has been having extramarital affairs. Starting from scratch, she gets involved in an unexpected relationship with a young womanizer.
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She's Funny That Way (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romanceOn the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
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Little Italy (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romanceFormer childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
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The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and romanceA financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
★ 6/10Also comedy and romanceDeuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking…
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and romanceA four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
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Desperados (2020)
★ 6/10Also comedy and romanceA panicked young woman and her two best friends fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau, who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.
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The Thrill of It All (1963)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romanceA housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.