Movies Like She's Gotta Have It
If you liked She's Gotta Have It (1986), a comedy and romance movie directed by Spike Lee, 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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How to Be Single (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romanceNew 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…
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How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and comedyArchie has been in love with his best friend Amelia for as long as he can remember. Just when he builds up the courage to declare his feelings, she falls head over heels for Billy Walsh, a new American transfer student.
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Someone Great (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceAn 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…
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¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and romanceLu, 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.
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Romance & Cigarettes (2006)
★ 6/10Also comedy and romanceIronworker 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…
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Two Can Play That Game (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romanceCorporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith thinks she's got the goods to keep her slickster boyfriend Keith, from straying—until he discovers a greener pasture, Shanté's archrival, Conny. Scorned, she…
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One Night Only (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and comedyTwo love-starved strangers crash into each other on the one night of the year when single people are allowed to have sex.
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Tootsie (1982)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and romanceWhen struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
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My Sassy Girl (2008)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romanceA guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.
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Entergalactic (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also romance and comedyAmbitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.
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Cuban Fury (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romanceBeneath 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.
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Splendor (1999)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceVeronica 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…
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Broadcast News (1987)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romanceA high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming news anchor who embodies the growing trivialization of news that she is determined to fight…
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The Long Weekend (2005)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romanceCooper 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…
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Someone Like You... (2001)
★ 6/10Also comedy and romanceJane 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…
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Playing It Cool (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romanceA young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.
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Puppy Love (2023)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romanceAfter 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…
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceAndy Stitzer has a pleasant life with a nice apartment and a job stamping invoices at an electronics store. But at age 40, there's one thing Andy hasn't done, and it's really bothering his sex-obsessed male co-workers…
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To Rome with Love (2012)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romanceFour tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a…
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Starting Over (1979)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceAfter divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.