Movies like While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping (1995) is a romance movie directed by Jon Turteltaub. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Carol (2015)
★ 7.5 · 4,055 votes · Romance, Drama
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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2. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
★ 8.4 · 14,312 votes · Comedy, Drama
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
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3. Home Alone (1990)
★ 7.5 · 12,948 votes · Comedy, Family
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
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4. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
★ 7.3 · 11,380 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.
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5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
★ 6.8 · 8,500 votes · Family, Comedy, Fantasy
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
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6. Love Actually (2003)
★ 7.1 · 7,615 votes · Comedy, Romance, Drama
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
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7. Gremlins (1984)
★ 7.1 · 7,203 votes · Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
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8. Friends with Benefits (2011)
★ 6.6 · 8,559 votes · Romance, Comedy
Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction - but without any emotional attachment.
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9. 50 First Dates (2004)
★ 6.9 · 7,970 votes · Comedy, Romance
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.
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10. The Holiday (2006)
★ 7.1 · 5,796 votes · Comedy, Romance
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
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11. Elf (2003)
★ 6.7 · 4,725 votes · Comedy, Family, Fantasy
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.
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12. Little Women (2019)
★ 7.8 · 7,045 votes · Drama, Romance
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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13. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
★ 7.0 · 1,029 votes · Comedy, Romance
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.
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14. Spirited (2022)
★ 6.8 · 820 votes · Comedy
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.
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15. 27 Dresses (2008)
★ 6.5 · 3,527 votes · Comedy, Romance
Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
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16. Happiest Season (2020)
★ 7.1 · 1,353 votes · Romance, Comedy
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
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17. Single All the Way (2021)
★ 6.4 · 438 votes · Romance, Comedy
Desperate to avoid his family’s judgment about his perpetual single status, Peter convinces his best friend Nick to join him for the holidays and pretend that they’re now in a relationship. But when Peter’s mother sets him up on a blind date with her handsome trainer James, the plan goes awry.
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18. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
★ 7.3 · 2,342 votes · Comedy
An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
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