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Movies Like Designing Woman

If you liked Designing Woman (1957), a comedy and romance movie directed by Vincente Minnelli, 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. 1Yoh! Bestie

    Yoh! Bestie (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    Thando 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.

  2. 2¿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.

  3. 3Players

    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…

  4. 4What's Love Got to Do with It?

    What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy

    Two 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.

  5. 5Let's Make Love

    Let's Make Love (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

  6. 6Little Italy

    Little Italy (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romance

    Former 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?

  7. 7Sex 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.

  8. 8The Right Kind of Wrong

    The Right Kind of Wrong (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy

    A stubborn idealist spies a bride on her way to her wedding and immediately falls in love with her.

  9. 9The Wrong Paris

    The Wrong Paris (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and comedy

    Dawn 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.

  10. 10Easy Virtue

    Easy Virtue (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romance

    A 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.

  11. 11Speechless

    Speechless (1994)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and comedy

    In 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.

  12. 12The 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.

  13. 13What'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.

  14. 14Pat and Mike

    Pat and Mike (1952)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married…

  15. 15Playing It Cool

    Playing It Cool (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.

  16. 16Cuban Fury

    Cuban Fury (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romance

    Beneath 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.

  17. 175 to 7

    5 to 7 (2014)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and romance

    A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

  18. 18Love Is in the Air

    Love Is in the Air (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

  19. 19A Nice Girl Like You

    A Nice Girl Like You (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romance

    Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend. In an effort to prove him wrong, Lucy creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her on a whirlwind and surprising journey…

  20. 20My Best Friend's Wedding

    My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romance

    When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the…

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