Movies Like Thalaivan Thalaivii

If you liked Thalaivan Thalaivii (2025), a romance and comedy movie directed by Pandiraj, 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
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…
2
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.
3
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.
4
Not Easily Broken (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
5
Made for Each Other (1939)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
6
Nothing in Common (1986)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedy
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
7
She's Having a Baby (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly…
8
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.
9
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.
10
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…
11
The Four Seasons (1981)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
12
Vishwanath & Sons (2026)
★ 7/10Also drama and romance
A celebrated Olympian shooter travels to America looking for a donor to help his sick child — but unexpected romance complicates his search.
13
One Fine Day (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and comedy
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets…
14
That Old Feeling (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.
15
Four Christmases (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romance
Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing…
16
Author! Author! (1982)
★ 6/10Also comedy and drama
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
17
Funny Girl (1968)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.
18
The Last Five Years (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama
In New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
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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…
20
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…