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Movies Like A Sad and Beautiful World

If you liked A Sad and Beautiful World (2026), a romance and drama movie directed by Cyril Aris, 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. 1You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    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…

  2. 2L.A. Without a Map

    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…

  3. 3I Met a Girl

    I Met a Girl (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance and drama

    An aspiring musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his…

  4. 4A California Christmas: City Lights

    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.

  5. 5Which Brings Me to You

    Which Brings Me to You (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of…

  6. 6Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  7. 7Love in Taipei

    Love in Taipei (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance and comedy

    A young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.

  8. 8He Said, She Said

    He Said, She Said (1991)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Womanising, 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…

  9. 9Father of the Bride

    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.

  10. 10A California Christmas

    A California Christmas (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas.

  11. 11The Life List

    The Life List (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also romance and comedy

    When her mother sends her on a quest to complete a teenage bucket list, a young woman uncovers family secrets, finds romance — and rediscovers herself.

  12. 12Happiness for Beginners

    Happiness for Beginners (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    At a crossroads after her divorce, a schoolteacher ventures toward a fresh start in life — and love — when she signs up for a grueling group hiking trip.

  13. 13Jersey Girl

    Jersey Girl (2004)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance

    Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having…

  14. 14Nine Lives

    Nine Lives (2005)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

  15. 15Coyote Ugly

    Coyote Ugly (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job…

  16. 16Made in Heaven

    Made in Heaven (1987)

    ★ 6.5/10Also romance and comedy

    Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows. They spend the next three decades drifting back together.

  17. 17The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  18. 18Yoh! Bestie

    Yoh! Bestie (2026)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.

  19. 19Love Everlasting

    Love Everlasting (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and drama

    Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.

  20. 20Irreplaceable You

    Irreplaceable You (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and drama

    A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

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