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Movies Like Love on the Run

If you liked Love on the Run (1979), a romance and drama movie directed by François Truffaut, 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. 1Coup de chance

    Coup de chance (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and drama

    Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled professionally, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris, and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses…

  2. 2My Old Lady

    My Old Lady (2014)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not…

  3. 3Anaïs in Love

    Anaïs in Love (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.

  4. 4Delicacy

    Delicacy (2011)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.

  5. 5You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    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…

  6. 6Three Colors: White

    Three Colors: White (1994)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business…

  7. 7Private Fears in Public Places

    Private Fears in Public Places (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    Seven lonely lives in Paris: a middle-aged estate agent who believes a colleague is sending messages in video tapes she loans him; his co-worker whose Bible is close at hand in times of stress; her late-night charge…

  8. 8Chéri

    Chéri (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy

    The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

  9. 9Before Sunset

    Before Sunset (2004)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance

    Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together…

  10. 10Something's Gotta Give

    Something's Gotta Give (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedy

    When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also…

  11. 11A California Christmas: City Lights

    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.

  12. 12Everybody Loves Jeanne

    Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy

    Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a…

  13. 13L.A. Without a Map

    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…

  14. 14Madame

    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…

  15. 15Three Friends

    Three Friends (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romance

    Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their…

  16. 16The Best Years of a Life

    The Best Years of a Life (2019)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the…

  17. 17The Apartment

    The Apartment (1996)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, when Max catches a glimpse of the great lost love of his life, he becomes obsessed with rekindling their relationship.

  18. 18Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  19. 19Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

    Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.

  20. 20Mr. Stein Goes Online

    Mr. Stein Goes Online (2017)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and drama

    Pierre, widowed and retired, has not been out of his house for two years. He discovers the joys of the internet thanks to Alex, a young man hired by his daughter to teach him the basics of computer science. On a…

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