Movies Like Stranger Than Fiction
If you liked Stranger Than Fiction (2019), a romance movie directed by Holly Randall, 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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Henry & June (1990)
★ 6/10Also romanceWhile traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin…
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The Hot Spot (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceUpon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
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True Romance (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceClarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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Closer (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also romanceThe relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
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The Glory of Life (2024)
★ 7.4/10Also romanceBecause of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-known writer has never before been able to allow himself to experience intimacy, he suffers from tuberculosis and is…
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Blithe Spirit (2020)
★ 5.7/10Also romanceA spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife…
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A Life Less Ordinary (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceUpon being fired, a desperate guy kidnaps a daughter of his former boss. Two angels are sent to Earth to check if love is possible in this case.
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Angel (2007)
★ 5.5/10Also romanceEdwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in…
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Stay Cool (2011)
★ 4.8/10Also romanceA successful author is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting…
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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
★ 6.9/10Also romanceFrances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to…
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Bad Date Chronicles (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceLeigh runs the website "Bad Date Chronicles," which allows people to anonymously post horrible date experiences. When rival blogger Conner becomes the subject of one of her posts, they agree to date each other to see…
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The Proposal (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceWhen she learns she's in danger of losing her visa status and being deported, overbearing book editor Margaret Tate forces her put-upon assistant, Andrew Paxton, to marry her.
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The Last Station (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also romanceA historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things. The Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every…
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Meeting Ms. Leigh (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceA young writer in need of inspiration shares a chance, deeply intimate weekend with an enigmatic older woman in Santa Monica. Raw, late-night conversations spark a profound connection and pave the way for an…
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Summerland (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceA woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
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The Cool Surface (1994)
★ 4/10Also romanceA writer returns to Hollywood after finishing his novel in the wilderness. Still smarting from his girlfriend's suicide and his publisher's criticisms of his novel, he becomes intrigued by the neighbor couple's abusive…
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Something from Tiffany's (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also romanceOne woman's life is forever changed by an engagement ring meant for someone else.
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Villon's Wife (2009)
★ 6.5/10Also romanceThis enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the…
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Frankie Starlight (1995)
★ 5.3/10Also romanceAn Irish-American dwarf chronicles his post-World War II immigration with his mother and her affair with a married official.
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Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
★ 5.7/10Also romanceA disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.