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Movies Like Just Tell Me What You Want

If you liked Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), a comedy and romance movie directed by Sidney Lumet, 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. 1¿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.

  2. 2Sex 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.

  3. 3Someone Great

    Someone Great (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one…

  4. 4Desperados

    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.

  5. 5My 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.

  6. 6Players

    Players (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10Also 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. 7Cuban 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.

  8. 8The 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.

  9. 9How 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…

  10. 10How 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…

  11. 11Splendor

    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…

  12. 12A 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…

  13. 13Puppy Love

    Puppy Love (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    After a disastrous first date, wild-child Nicole and socially-anxious Max vow to lose each other’s numbers until they learn that their dogs found a love match, and now puppies are on the way! The hilariously mismatched…

  14. 14The 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…

  15. 15Oh, Ramona!

    Oh, Ramona! (2019)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romance

    Oh, Ramona! seeks the transformation of Andrew from a teenager into an adult who lives candidly and selflessly his first love story, innocent and uninvolved, alternating with the second, intense and insane story…

  16. 16One 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.

  17. 17Someone 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…

  18. 18The Knack... and How to Get It

    The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and romance

    A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help…

  19. 19French Girl

    French Girl (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an…

  20. 20Feast of the Seven Fishes

    Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romance

    A slice of life story that follows a large Italian family on Christmas Eve as they prepare for the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes, reminisce about the past and seek love in the future.

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