Movies Like Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
If you liked Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), a drama and comedy movie directed by Bharat Nalluri, 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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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and dramaAn early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
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This Time Next Year (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedyMinnie and Quinn were both born in London on New Year’s Day, in the same hospital, one minute apart. Thirty years later — and very different people — they find themselves thrown together again in the same city on New…
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Emma (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedyEmma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma…
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The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceA young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.
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Persuasion (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and dramaLiving with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne…
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Phantom Thread (2017)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceIn 1950s London, a renowned dressmaker's meticulous lifestyle begins drastically changing as his relationship with his young muse intensifies.
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Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and romanceMillie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she…
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also romance and dramaFree-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the…
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84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceWhen a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank…
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceNick Carraway arrives in New York in 1922, an era of loose morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick encounters the mysterious millionaire Gatsby and his bewitching cousin Daisy…
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Being Julia (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaJulia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to…
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Rebel in the Rye (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceThe life of celebrated but reclusive author J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel The Catcher in the Rye.
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and romanceA young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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About a Boy (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedyWill Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a…
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Finding Your Feet (2017)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaWhen her life is turned upside down upon discovering her husband's affair, Sandra Abbott seeks refuge in London with her estranged older sister Bif. She begins to find her feet again after letting Bif drag her along to…
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Love Actually (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and romanceEight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
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The Secret Scripture (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceThe hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
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Northanger Abbey (2007)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and dramaA young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
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An Ideal Husband (1999)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedySir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to…
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The World of Henry Orient (1964)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaA mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.