Movies Like The Personals
If you liked The Personals (1982), a romance and comedy movie directed by Peter Markle, 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.
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Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedyA fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.
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Little Italy (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romanceFormer childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
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Yoh! Bestie (2026)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedyThando 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.
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Relationship Goals (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and comedyWhen TV producer Leah Caldwell aims to become the first woman running New York's top morning show, her ex competes for the same role. Leah stays focused on her career, until chemistry with her ex challenges her…
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Boot Camp (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedyUnathletic Whitney Carmichael signs up for an intense summer boot camp to reinvent herself and falls for her personal trainer. She then finds the strength to embrace her true self and ignore the others' expectations.
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Easy Virtue (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romanceA 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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The Wrong Paris (2025)
★ 6.7/10Also romance and comedyDawn thinks she's joining a dating show in Paris, France, only to land in Paris, Texas. She has an exit plan — until sparks fly with the cowboy bachelor.
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Chasing Papi (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romancePlayboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored…
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Speechless (1994)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedyIn the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides.
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The Woman in Red (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romanceWhen a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak…
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The Other End of the Line (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romanceAn employee at an Indian call-center travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.
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Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceStudents Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each…
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Crossing Delancey (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romanceThirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is…
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Mischief (1985)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romance1956: The shy Jonathan's luck with girls changes when he wins the rebellious Gene as a friend in his last year of high school. Gene is adored by many girls and manages to teach Jonathan a few lessons. Gene himself…
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Prom Pact (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and romanceIt's prom season, and high school senior Mandy and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surrounded by over-the-top "promposals." Mandy is only focused on getting into her dream school Harvard, but as she starts…
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Good Advice (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romanceAn investment banker loses everything and must discover what's really important in life.
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Only the Lonely (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceDanny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the…
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You've Got Mail (1998)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romanceBook superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
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Sidelined: The QB and Me (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romanceDallas, a burdened but headstrong dancer, is determined to get into the best dance school in the country—her late mother’s alma mater. However, that dream is suddenly derailed when the cheeky yet secretly grieving…
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Taking Care of Business (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAn uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.