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Movies Like The Truth About Cats & Dogs

If you liked The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996), a comedy and romance movie directed by Michael Lehmann, 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. 1Return to Me

    Return to Me (2000)

    ★ 6.7/10Also romance and comedy

    It took a lot of persuading to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he’s instantly smitten, not with his date, but with the sharp-witted waitress…

  2. 2The 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.

  3. 3Love, 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.

  4. 4What'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.

  5. 5The 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.

  6. 6Head Over Heels

    Head Over Heels (2001)

    ★ 5.8/10Also romance and comedy

    Ordinary single girl Amanda Pierce unexpectedly finds herself sharing an awesome Manhattan apartment with four sexy supermodels. Determined to bring Amanda into their world, the models give her the ultimate makeover…

  7. 7Yoh! Bestie

    Yoh! Bestie (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10Also 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.

  8. 8She's Funny That Way

    She's Funny That Way (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

  9. 9The Wedding Planner

    The Wedding Planner (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client. As Mary continues making their…

  10. 10Finding Emily

    Finding Emily (2026)

    ★ 7/10Also romance and comedy

    When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and…

  11. 11Just My Luck

    Just My Luck (2006)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance

    Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.

  12. 12A Day at the Races

    A Day at the Races (1937)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy

    Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's sanitarium by winning a big race with a finicky horse owned by Judy's boyfriend Gil. There are a few problems. Hackenbush, who was recently put in charge of…

  13. 13Midnight at the Magnolia

    Midnight at the Magnolia (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    Longtime friends and local radio hosts Maggie and Jack fake it as a couple for their families and listeners in hopes of getting their show syndicated.

  14. 14Whatever Works

    Whatever Works (2009)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and romance

    Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are…

  15. 15Good Advice

    Good Advice (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's really important in life.

  16. 16One Small Hitch

    One Small Hitch (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedy

    On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh's dying father happy. Things quickly get out of hand with their two…

  17. 17Straight Talk

    Straight Talk (1992)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romance

    Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the…

  18. 18Kiss Me, Stupid

    Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and romance

    While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for…

  19. 19Merv

    Merv (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romance

    When their beloved dog Merv loses his spark after their split, Anna and Russ are forced into the world's most awkward co-parenting arrangement. Hoping to shake Merv out of his funk, Russ takes him to Florida for a…

  20. 20That Touch of Mink

    That Touch of Mink (1962)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romance

    Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a…

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