Movies Like About the Looking for and the Finding of Love
If you liked About the Looking for and the Finding of Love (2005), a comedy and romance movie directed by Helmut Dietl, 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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Walk the Line (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and musicA chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and…
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Meet Joe Black (1998)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceBill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees…
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Autumn in New York (2000)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceWill Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to…
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Sissi (1955)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and dramaThe young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an emperor named Franz Joseph, Yet unexpectedly Franz runs into Sissi while out…
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Lost in Translation (2003)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and comedyTwo lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from…
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The Apartment (1960)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and dramaBud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although…
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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.
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New York, New York (1977)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and dramaAn egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
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The Last Five Years (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaIn New York, a struggling actress and a successful writer sing about their failed marriage from two perspectives.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy and dramaTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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Once (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and musicA vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring…
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Possessed (1947)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceAfter being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romanceA radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Single by Contract (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also romance and comedyA love connection clicks for Lila when she moves back to Berlin and meets Christopher -- never realizing that she's fallen for a rock star who's signed a contract to remain single for life.
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Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957)
★ 7.1/10Also romance and dramaAfter a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.
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Christopher and His Kind (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceIn 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's…
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Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaAfter the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never…
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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceA beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Music and Lyrics (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and musicA washed-up '80s pop star gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write & record a duet with her, but there's a problem--Alex hasn't written a song in years; he's never written…
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August Rush (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and musicEvan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater…