Movies Like When Love Digs a Hole
If you liked When Love Digs a Hole (2018), a comedy and romance movie directed by Ara Ball, 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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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaAfter her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
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Tall Girl (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaJodi, 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…
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I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaA mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time.
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The Best You Can (2025)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romanceCynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside…
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Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and dramaA high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
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Friends with Kids (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaIn the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can…
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Love & Sex (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaWhen her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…
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XX/XY (2002)
★ 6/10Also drama and comedyThree friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.
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The Mother (2003)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceA grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
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Stargirl (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaAn unassuming high schooler finds himself inexplicably drawn to the free-spirited new girl, whose unconventional ways change how they see themselves…and their world.
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaTwo 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…
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Laggies (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaOvereducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to…
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The Half of It (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and romanceShy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings…
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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaGeorgia 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…
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The Graduate (1967)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romanceA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
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Our Story (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedyRobert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to…
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Fire with Fire (1986)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison…
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Waiting for Bojangles (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedyA boy and his eccentric parents leave their home in Paris for a country house in Spain. As the mother descends deeper into her own mind, it's up to the boy and his father to keep her safe and happy.
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I Got Life! (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedyAurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
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10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and romanceOn the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister…