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Movies Like Plain and Dry

If you liked Plain and Dry (2025), a comedy and romance movie directed by Hayden Goodiel, 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. 1Someone Like You...

    Someone Like You... (2001)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and romance

    Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane…

  2. 2One Night Only

    One Night Only (2026)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance and comedy

    Two love-starved strangers crash into each other on the one night of the year when single people are allowed to have sex.

  3. 3Zack and Miri Make a Porno

    Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romance

    Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each…

  4. 4My Sassy Girl

    My Sassy Girl (2008)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance

    A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.

  5. 5Sex Appeal

    Sex Appeal (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romance

    Avery, a teenager with a tendency towards perfectionism, enlists her friend Larson to help her prepare for her first time with her long-distance boyfriend.

  6. 6Players

    Players (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and comedy

    New York sportswriter Mack has spent years devising successful hook-up "plays" with her friends, but when she unexpectedly falls for one of her targets, she must learn what it takes to go from simply scoring to playing…

  7. 7The Incredible Jessica James

    The Incredible Jessica James (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy

    Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.

  8. 8¿Quieres ser mi hijo?

    ¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)

    ★ 8.4/10Also comedy and romance

    Lu, 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.

  9. 9How to Be Single

    How to Be Single (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romance

    New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions…

  10. 10The Long Weekend

    The Long Weekend (2005)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romance

    Cooper is an actor who sees life as one big party, while Ed is in advertising and takes life too seriously. When Ed gets stressed over a deadline he has to meet, his brother Cooper works hard in trying to get his…

  11. 11Cuban Fury

    Cuban Fury (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romance

    Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to reignite his Latin fire.

  12. 12My Fake Boyfriend

    My Fake Boyfriend (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    A young man in a tricky situation follows the advice of his unconventional best friend and uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to keep his awful ex-lover out of his life. But everything backfires when he meets…

  13. 13Desperados

    Desperados (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and romance

    A 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.

  14. 14Splendor

    Splendor (1999)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance

    Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible…

  15. 15How I Got Into College

    How I Got Into College (1989)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and romance

    High school senior Marlon Bowne is smitten with overachieving classmate Jessica Kailo. But, if he wants to have a shot with her, he'll have to find a way to get into Ramsey College, Jessica's top choice of schools. It…

  16. 16Mr. Jealousy

    Mr. Jealousy (1998)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    After his first date at age 15 ended with the girl making out with another man at a party, aspiring writer Lester Grimm has treated all his girlfriends with jealousy and suspicion. While dating Ramona Ray, paranoia…

  17. 17There's Something About Mary

    There's Something About Mary (1998)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedy

    For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy…

  18. 18No Hard Feelings

    No Hard Feelings (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romance

    On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To…

  19. 19A Nice Girl Like You

    A Nice Girl Like You (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romance

    Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend. In an effort to prove him wrong, Lucy creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her on a whirlwind and surprising journey…

  20. 20Dinner in America

    Dinner in America (2022)

    ★ 7.8/10Also romance and comedy

    An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.

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