Movies Like Pete 'n' Tillie

If you liked Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), a drama and comedy movie directed by Martin Ritt, 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.

1
Chéri (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
2
Dying Young (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in…
3
Not Easily Broken (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
4
Hope Springs (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
5
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…
6
The Story of Us (1999)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy
After 15 years of marriage, Katie and her husband, Ben, have grown apart. While they keep up the facade of having a contented marriage, mostly to not worry their children, they aren't happy together and argue…
7
A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedy
Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.
8
L.A. Without a Map (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedy
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a…
9
We Live in Time (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also romance and drama
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
10
Before We Go (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also romance and drama
A chance encounter between two strangers in Grand Central Terminal sparks a life-changing, nighttime sojourn through New York City. They grow into each other's most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected…
11
The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships…
12
A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.
13
Father of the Bride (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy
A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.
14
Voicemails for Isabelle (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also romance and comedy
A young woman's hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar.
15
The One I Love (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also romance and comedy
Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by escaping to a beautiful vacation house for the weekend.
16
Purple Hearts (2022)
★ 8/10Also romance and drama
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
17
Until Forever (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance
Until Forever: The Michael Boyum Story is a powerful, true account of one young man's courageous battle with leukemia and his journey of faith.
18
Spoiler Alert (2022)
★ 7/10Also romance and comedy
Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
19
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedy
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also…
20
Griffin & Phoenix (2006)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.