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Movies Like The First Time

If you liked The First Time (2021), a comedy and drama movie directed by Magnus Kjørrefjord, 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. 1You 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…

  2. 2Camille

    Camille (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.

  3. 3Enemies, a Love Story

    Enemies, a Love Story (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

  4. 4XX/XY

    XX/XY (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and comedy

    Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.

  5. 5He Said, She Said

    He Said, She Said (1991)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions…

  6. 6Sitting in Bars with Cake

    Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also romance and comedy

    Extrovert Corinne convinces Jane, a shy, talented baker, to commit to a year of bringing cakes to bars, to help her meet people and build confidence. But when Corinne receives a life-altering diagnosis, the pair faces…

  7. 7A California Christmas: City Lights

    A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedy

    Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.

  8. 8Numb

    Numb (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel…

  9. 9Chéri

    Chéri (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy

    The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.

  10. 10Sidewalks of New York

    Sidewalks of New York (2001)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives…

  11. 11Breaking & Exiting

    Breaking & Exiting (2018)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, sending both of them into a darkly comedic journey of self…

  12. 12The Best You Can

    The Best You Can (2025)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    Cynthia 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…

  13. 13Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  14. 14Cherry

    Cherry (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned to college to straighten out her life. The curriculum gets more…

  15. 15Irreplaceable You

    Irreplaceable You (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and drama

    A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.

  16. 16How to Please a Woman

    How to Please a Woman (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

  17. 17Delirious

    Delirious (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, Toby becomes romantically involved…

  18. 18Cyrus

    Cyrus (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before…

  19. 19Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

    Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.

  20. 20Madame

    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…

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