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Movies Like Just the Ticket

If you liked Just the Ticket (1998), a comedy and romance movie directed by Richard Wenk, 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. 1My 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.

  2. 2Starting Over

    Starting Over (1979)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

  3. 3Focus

    Focus (2015)

    ★ 6.9/10Also romance and comedy

    Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

  4. 4Bullets Over Broadway

    Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a…

  5. 5Desperados

    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.

  6. 6How 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…

  7. 7One 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.

  8. 8Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

    Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.

  9. 9French 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…

  10. 10Someone 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…

  11. 11Girl on a Bicycle

    Girl on a Bicycle (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day…

  12. 12¿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.

  13. 13Sex 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.

  14. 14What's New Pussycat?

    What's New Pussycat? (1965)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.

  15. 15Players

    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…

  16. 16Romance & Cigarettes

    Romance & Cigarettes (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and romance

    Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval…

  17. 17The 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.

  18. 182 Days in Paris

    2 Days in Paris (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romance

    Marion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents — and several of her ex-boyfriends.

  19. 19Caught Stealing

    Caught Stealing (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy

    Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous…

  20. 20Tromeo & Juliet

    Tromeo & Juliet (1996)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and romance

    All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had! Join Tromeo and Juliet as they travel through Manhattan's underground in search of climactic love, violence and the American Way.

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