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Movies Like Laura Gets a Cat

If you liked Laura Gets a Cat (2018), a comedy and drama movie directed by Michael Ferrell, 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. 1Love Sarah

    Love Sarah (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.

  2. 2L.A. Without a Map

    L.A. Without a Map (1999)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedy

    An 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…

  3. 3You 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…

  4. 4The Spectacular Now

    The Spectacular Now (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected…

  5. 5Father of the Bride

    Father of the Bride (1950)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.

  6. 6The Other Sister

    The Other Sister (1999)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.

  7. 75 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.

  8. 8Prime

    Prime (2005)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.

  9. 9Celeste & Jesse Forever

    Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered…

  10. 10Hitch

    Hitch (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques…

  11. 11Dan in Real Life

    Dan in Real Life (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romance

    Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that…

  12. 12Tall Girl

    Tall Girl (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Jodi, the tallest girl in her high school, has always felt uncomfortable in her own skin. But after years of slouching, being made fun of, and avoiding attention at all costs, Jodi finally decides to find the…

  13. 13Merrily We Go to Hell

    Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

  14. 14He's Just Not That Into You

    He's Just Not That Into You (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and romance

    Remember that really cute girl/guy who said they'd call – and didn't? Maybe they lost your number. Maybe they're in the hospital. Maybe they're awed by your looks, brains or success. Or maybe... They're just not that…

  15. 15Funny Girl

    Funny Girl (1968)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

  16. 16Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

    Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama

    Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a…

  17. 17Madame

    Madame (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy

    Anne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid…

  18. 18Jersey 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…

  19. 19A Lot Like Love

    A Lot Like Love (2005)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama

    On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they…

  20. 20Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

    ★ 7.6/10Also comedy and romance

    Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.

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