Movies Like The Hairdresser's Husband
If you liked The Hairdresser's Husband (1990), a comedy and drama movie directed by Patrice Leconte, 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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Nappily Ever After (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and romanceAfter an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.
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Beautiful Lies (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romanceA hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
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Three Colors: White (1994)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaPolish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business…
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Elizabethtown (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaDrew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when…
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Swan Song (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaAn aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
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Stealing Home (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceBilly Wyatt, a former high school and minor-league baseball player, receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler, has died…
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romanceA small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
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Just Before I Go (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaTed Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he…
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaTwo 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…
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Sorry Angel (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaAt once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and…
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City Lights (1931)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and dramaA 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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Happythankyoumoreplease (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaSix New Yorkers navigate love, commitment, and adulthood. When struggling novelist Sam takes in an abandoned boy he meets on the subway, his life begins to intertwine with a talented singer who challenges his bachelor…
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My Girl (1991)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaVada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J…
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The Greatest Hits (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceHarriet finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport her back in time – literally. While she relives the past through romantic memories of her former boyfriend, her time travelling collides…
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The Baltimorons (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaA newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.
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Snow Angels (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceWaitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student…
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Catch and Release (2006)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaFor a grieving fiancée, learning to love again requires the help of her late love's three best friends.
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After You (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romanceAntoine works in a bar in Paris. One evening on his way home from work, he intervenes when a man tries to commit suicide. He feels strangely guilty about having saved the man's life and constantly tries to help him…
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He Said, She Said (1991)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaWomanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions…
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In Her Shoes (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaIrresponsible party girl Maggie is kicked out of her father's and stepmother's home—where she lives for free—and is taken in by her hard-working sister, Philadelphia lawyer Rose. After Maggie's disruptive ways ruin her…