Movies Like Taking the Plunge 2
If you liked Taking the Plunge 2 (2009), a comedy and drama movie directed by Frédéric D'Amours, 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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Sink or Swim (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and comedy40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he…
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Water Lilies (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceSet during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad…
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Swimming with Men (2018)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaA man who is suffering a mid-life crisis finds new meaning in his life as part of an all-male, middle-aged, amateur synchronised swimming team.
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Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also romance and dramaMiddle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend…
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Just an Illusion (2026)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and dramaIn 1985 suburban Paris, 12-year-old Vincent lives with his distant older brother and quarrelling parents. Amid laughter and unease, he navigates friendship and first love, while beginning to confront the adult world.
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Muriel's Wedding (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaSocially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel…
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedyWhen 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…
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The Best Years of a Life (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceThey 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…
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Anaïs in Love (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.
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Fahim (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedyFahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.
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Blind Date (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceHe invents puzzles. He’s committed body and soul to his work and needs silence to be able to concentrate. She is an accomplished pianist and can’t live without music. She must prepare for a competition that could…
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Harold and Maude (1971)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and dramaA deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
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The Together Project (2016)
★ 6/10Also drama and comedySamir, a lanky crane operator in Montreuil, falls madly for Agathe. As master swimmer at the pool Thorez he decides to take swimming lessons with her. But the lie does not last three lessons - Agathe hate liars. Chosen…
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I Got Life! (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedyAurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
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Drive Me Crazy (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedyNicole and Chase live next door to each other but are worlds apart. However, they plot a scheme to date each other in order to attract the interest and jealousy of their respective romantic prey. But in the mist of…
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Float (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaWaverly thought she had her future figured out: she’d start her medical residency in Toronto after a summer visit to her parents in Taipei. When her plans suddenly change, she makes an impulsive detour to a small…
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What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedyTwo 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.
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L.A. Without a Map (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedyAn 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…
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Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and comedyEverybody 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…
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Prime (2005)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaA career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.