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Movies Like Encounter

If you liked Encounter (2017), a romance and comedy movie directed by Giacomo De Bello, 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. 1What's Love Got to Do with It?

    What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy

    Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

  2. 2¿Quieres ser mi hijo?

    ¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)

    ★ 8.4/10Also comedy and romance

    Lu, a conformist woman in her forties, learns that her 15-year partner has been having extramarital affairs. Starting from scratch, she gets involved in an unexpected relationship with a young womanizer.

  3. 3Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today

    Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance and comedy

    A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.

  4. 4Red Nose Day Actually

    Red Nose Day Actually (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    Fourteen years after the events of the original film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.

  5. 5Yoh! Bestie

    Yoh! Bestie (2026)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.

  6. 6After Midnight

    After Midnight (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    A beautiful fugitive draws a shy film buff out of his shell while she hides in the museum — the cavernous interiors of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy — where he works as night watchman.

  7. 7The Right Kind of Wrong

    The Right Kind of Wrong (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy

    A stubborn idealist spies a bride on her way to her wedding and immediately falls in love with her.

  8. 8Girl on a Bicycle

    Girl on a Bicycle (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day…

  9. 9The Wrong Paris

    The Wrong Paris (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and comedy

    Dawn thinks she's joining a dating show in Paris, France, only to land in Paris, Texas. She has an exit plan — until sparks fly with the cowboy bachelor.

  10. 10Easy Virtue

    Easy Virtue (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romance

    A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

  11. 11The Last Summer

    The Last Summer (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and comedy

    Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.

  12. 12Under the Riccione Sun

    Under the Riccione Sun (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance

    While vacationing on the crowded beaches of Riccione, a group of teenagers becomes fast friends as they grapple with relationship issues and romance.

  13. 13Only the Lonely

    Only the Lonely (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance

    Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the…

  14. 14Zack and Miri Make a Porno

    Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romance

    Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each…

  15. 15Love Is in the Air

    Love Is in the Air (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy

    A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

  16. 16Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

    Love, Weddings & Other Disasters (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and comedy

    A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

  17. 17Speechless

    Speechless (1994)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and comedy

    In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides.

  18. 18How to Marry a Millionaire

    How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance

    Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.

  19. 19Let's Make Love

    Let's Make Love (1960)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance

    When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

  20. 20Caprice

    Caprice (1986)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.

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