Movies Like Manmatha Raja

If you liked Manmatha Raja (1989), a comedy and drama movie directed by Om Saiprakash, 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
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
Madame (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy
Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid…
3
Love Sarah (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
4
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…
5
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
6
The Other Sister (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
7
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…
8
The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance
A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.
9
Hitch (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques…
10
Easy Virtue (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romance
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
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Let's Make Love (1960)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
12
The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama
A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her…
13
This Little Love of Mine (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy
Laura Price is a successful San Francisco lawyer on the cusp of promotion – a far cry from her childhood growing up on a tropical island with best friends Chip and Gem. When the firm’s biggest client – Chip’s…
14
Tall Girl (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama
Jodi, the tallest girl in her high school, has always felt uncomfortable in her own skin. But after years of slouching, being made fun of, and avoiding attention at all costs, Jodi finally decides to find the…
15
It Runs in the Family (2003)
★ 6/10Also comedy and drama
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
16
College (1927)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedy
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.
17
The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
18
Home by Spring (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance
When an ambitious event planner gets an opportunity she can’t refuse, she goes undercover as her boss and returns to her rural hometown. With the help of her family and the man she left behind, she pulls off the…
19
Love Is in the Air (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy
A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.
20
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedy
A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.