27 Best Movies Like Shirley Valentine ...

27 Best Movies Like Shirley Valentine ...

If you liked this one , you will probably love these too! In this list we highlight some of the best films that share a very similar mood to '', and are worth checking out.

1. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

1h 57m Comedy Drama Romance

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

2. Swinging with the Finkels (2011)

1h 25m Comedy Romance

A suburban couple decide to spice up their lives by swinging with another couple.

3. Educating Rita (1983)

1h 50m Drama Comedy

Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself so she joins an Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Frank needs is a challenge... and along comes Rita.

4. Crush (2001)

1h 52m Romance Comedy Drama

Three 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swapped stories arguing which of them has the most pathetic love life. Kate is headmistress at the local school; her best friends are the town's police chief and a cynical, thrice-divorced doctor.

5. Frankie and Johnny (1991)

1h 58m Drama Romance Comedy

When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress Frankie. While Frankie resists Johnny's charms initially, she eventually relents when her best friend, Tim, persuades her to give Johnny a chance.

6. Mystic Pizza (1988)

1h 44m Comedy Drama Romance

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

7. The Best Man (1999)

2h Drama Comedy

Harper, a writer who's about to explode into the mainstream leaves behind his girlfriend Robin and heads to New York City to serve as best man for his friend Lance's wedding. Once there, he reunites with the rest of his college circle.

8. The Story of Us (1999)

1h 35m Comedy Drama Romance

Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

9. She&`s Having a Baby (1988)

10. Same Time, Next Year (1978)

11. About Last Night... (1986)

1h 53m Comedy Drama Romance

A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.

12. Moonlight and Valentino (1995)

1h 40m Comedy Drama Romance

Four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them

13. Beautiful Girls (1996)

1h 52m Comedy Drama Romance

During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.

14. Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)

1h 23m Comedy Drama Romance

Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

15. August (1996)

16. Ten Inch Hero (2007)

1h 37m Comedy Drama Romance

Four friends search for love and happiness while working at a California sandwich shop.

17. Moonstruck (1987)

1h 42m Comedy Drama Romance

No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

18. Angie (1994)

1h 47m Drama Romance

Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire neighborhood upside down and starts her on a journey of self discovery. This journey includes her family, a new lover and her life. Even her best friend Tina has trouble understanding Angie. Written by Tony Fontana

19. How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

1h 56m Drama Romance

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse, Calif. There, Finn learns that Hy and Glady Joe are members of a group of passionate quilters, and over the course of her visit she is regaled with tales of love and life by women who have collected rich experiences and much wisdom.

20. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

2h 6m Comedy Drama Romance

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.

21. Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

1h 31m Comedy Drama Romance

Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?

22. 3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)

1h 44m Family Comedy

Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important females in their lives.

23. The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

1h 37m Comedy Drama History Romance

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities...

24. Autumn Tale (1998)

25. Conversations with Other Women (2005)

26. Return to Me (2000)

1h 55m Romance Comedy

It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress. Everything seems to be going great until an unbelievable truth is revealed, one that could easily break both of their hearts for good.

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