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Movies Like Pitter Patter Goes My Heart

If you liked Pitter Patter Goes My Heart (2015), a drama and comedy movie directed by Christoph Rainer, 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. 1Bob Trevino Likes It

    Bob Trevino Likes It (2025)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama

    Lily Trevino unexpectedly befriends an online stranger who shares her self-centered father’s name. This new Bob Trevino’s support could transform her life.

  2. 2Stuck in Love

    Stuck in Love (2013)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and comedy

    An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.

  3. 3The Confirmation

    The Confirmation (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy

    A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.

  4. 4Stepmom

    Stepmom (1998)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women…

  5. 5When a Man Loves a Woman

    When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of…

  6. 6We Live in Time

    We Live in Time (2024)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance and drama

    An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.

  7. 7Love Jones

    Love Jones (1997)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out…

  8. 8Young Adult

    Young Adult (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

  9. 9Jersey Girl

    Jersey Girl (2004)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance

    Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having…

  10. 10Ode to Joy

    Ode to Joy (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Charlie suffers from a serious disease that causes acute narcolepsy whenever he is happy. Although he develops a variety of techniques to deny himself pleasure and deal with his sleep issues, they’re put to the test…

  11. 11Enough Said

    Enough Said (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a…

  12. 12The Courtship of Eddie's Father

    The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedy

    Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.

  13. 13The Burning Plain

    The Burning Plain (2008)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is…

  14. 14Seven Minutes in Heaven

    Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who has run away from home, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she…

  15. 15Tortilla Soup

    Tortilla Soup (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

  16. 16You 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…

  17. 17The Panic in Needle Park

    The Panic in Needle Park (1971)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and…

  18. 18Untamed Heart

    Untamed Heart (1993)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and…

  19. 19Doing Life

    Doing Life (2026)

    ★ 7.9/10Also romance and drama

    A single mother and an incarcerated man forge an unlikely bond through heartfelt letters, unlocking a door to redemption, hope and love against all odds.

  20. 20It Ends with Us

    It Ends with Us (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for…

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