31 Best Movies Like Waitress ...

31 Best Movies Like Waitress ...

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1. Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

1h 53m Romance Comedy

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.

2. Where the Heart Is (2000)

2h Comedy Drama Romance

Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.

3. Adam (2009)

1h 39m Drama Romance

Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

4. Mostly Martha (2001)

1h 46m Romance Drama Comedy

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.

5. I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)

1h 37m Comedy Drama Romance

This movie follows a mother who falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.

6. A Lot Like Love (2005)

1h 47m Comedy Drama Romance

On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?

7. The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)

1h 46m Comedy Romance

Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.

8. No Reservations (2007)

1h 44m Comedy Romance Drama

Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.

9. Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)

1h 58m Comedy Drama Romance

Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

10. Friends with Kids (2011)

11. Waiting to Exhale (1995)

2h 7m Comedy Drama Romance

Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.

12. 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?

13. 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.

14. Mystic Pizza (1988)

1h 44m Comedy Drama Romance

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

15. Ten Inch Hero (2007)

1h 37m Comedy Drama Romance

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

16. In the Land of Women (2007)

1h 37m Romance Comedy Drama

After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.

17. P.S. I Love You (2007)

2h 6m Drama Romance

A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

18. For Keeps? (1988)

1h 38m Drama Family Romance

Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. Neither Darcy's mother, who was left by her husband and had to bring up Darcy alone, nor Stan's catholic parents are very supportive and urge them to h

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

20. Italian for Beginners (2000)

21. Polish Wedding (1998)

1h 45m Comedy Drama

The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.

22. In Good Company (2004)

1h 49m Comedy Drama Romance

Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made worse when Dan's new supervisor becomes romantically involved with his daughter an 18 year-old college student Alex.

23. Friends with Money (2006)

1h 28m Comedy Drama Romance

After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.

24. Definitely, Maybe (2008)

1h 52m Comedy Romance

When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.

25. Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)

26. The Back-up Plan (2010)

1h 46m Comedy Romance

When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life's dreams fit with each other.

27. How Do You Know (2010)

2h 1m Comedy Drama Romance

After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.

28. The Thing Called Love (1993)

1h 56m Drama Romance

Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.

29. Fools Rush In (1997)

1h 49m Drama Comedy Romance

After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.

30. Up in the Air (2009)

1h 50m Drama Romance

Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

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