20 best movies like Bimboland (1998)

List of the best movies like Bimboland (1998): Another Woman's Life, The Trouble with You, Red Nose Day Actually, Hear Me, Delicacy, Beau Pere, Twice Upon a Yesterday, Christmas Cupid, Bakery in Brooklyn, Sleeping with Other People.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration01:37

When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her life flash-forwarded fifteen years down the road: Not only has she been married to Paul all this time, but she’s now the mother of a little boy the head of a powerful multinational investment firm and the proprietor of a fabulous apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower. Quickly Marie discovers that all her achievements have not brought happiness.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration02:12

Detective Yvonne is the widow of police chief Santi, a local hero in a town on the French Riviera. When she learns he was in fact a crooked cop, she tries to right his wrongs. Crossing paths with Antoine, a victim of Santi, sets off a series of wild events.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, short
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France

Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryTaiwan

A delivery Boy falls for a young girl who is hearing impaired. Comparing themselves with "water birds" and trees, together they are going to break the barrier and pursuit their dreams and take their relationship to the next level

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:48

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration02:03

Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, USA
Duration01:31

Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, family, cartoon, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Sloan is beautiful, stylish, and on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. After her client Caitlin ends up in a coma and becomes her own personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future; she finds out first hand that her unethical ways needs to change and reuniting with a past jilted lover may be the answer.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySpain, USA

Brooklyn, New York. After the sudden death of their aunt Isabelle, Vivien and Chloe inherit her historic bakery. Vivien wants to keep up the tradition; Chloe feels that the business needs to be modernized. But when notified that they are about to be evicted, the two do not hesitate to work together to preserve the family legacy.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
Duration01:33

After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Japan, Belgium, Canada
Duration01:41

A Japanophile young Belgian woman in Tokyo falls into a whirlwind romance with a Francophile Japanese student, in this charming and tender tale of young love and cultural discovery.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Spain, USA, Belgium
Duration01:57

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:28

At 40, Alice has everything a woman of her age could want - everything except one vital accessory: a man. Since her husband was killed in a road accident a few years ago, she has resisted all attempts to start a relationship with another man, despite the best efforts of her closest friends Pénélope and Isabelle. As a last resort, the latter decide to offer Alice a stay at the Hôtel Normandy, the ideal place for her to turn over a new leaf...

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

Bakery owner Molly meets Josh, a widower who recently moved to town with his young son, but she is also charmed by a mysterious client whom she’s never met in person and she doesn’t realize that they’re the same man.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration02:33

A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:38

    When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his teacher.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryTurkey

    Sinan is sent to Capadocia by his boss, Isfendiyar to write a screenplay. As he waits for inspiration, Sinan finds himself running first into Eylul, the daughter of Izzet, who owns the hotel where he's booked to stay, and then into soap opera star Faruk, his former good friend and present enemy. It isn't long before cabdriver Lokman, who declares himself Sinan's 'chauffeur' and Arif, a local farmer and horse breeder, are part of both Sinan's life and his screenplay. Although plentiful adventures among the magical fairy chimneys, colorful balloons and at the annual grape festival become like a movie for all involved, the happy ending awaited by the boss, Isfendiyar never happens. But the boss insists on his happy ending. And Sinan has to write that ending!

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration01:33

    Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money, no job, and delusional aspirations of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac and hits the road for Atlantic City. But his car dies in the desert and Jack is left stranded in the small town of Lost Springs. There, Jack meets jazz legend turned mechanic, Doc Bishop (Robert Guillaume), who helps him with his car trouble. Although Jack is far from the stage, he begins to find himself feeling at home in the small town. When he meets local bar owner, Lauren Wells (Melissa Joan Hart), Jack starts to see there is more to life than chasing fame and fortune. Doc encourages Jack to explore his true love of music, while Lauren provides the audience he has always wanted. But as Jack realizes this town has more to offer him than the bright lights of the big city, his Vegas past catches up with him -- what unfolds is comedy at the crossroads of life.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryAustralia

    After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:45

    A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryJapan

    Nino is a quiet outcast with only a bird for a friend. Kira is a popular boy with a big secret. Even though they live next to each other, they have never spoken. But when Nino learns Kira's secret, everything begins to change, and what starts as a hesitant friendship grows into something more... but how long can it last?

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    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?

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryLuxembourg, Belgium, Israel, France

    Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show's financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:40

    Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:19

    An average guy meets an actress who is more beautiful than he could ever imagine. But then a pesky girl materializes to make his life a living hell. His perfect girlfriend now thinks that he is involved with this Caprice.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    Winning your childhood sweetheart can create more problems than it solves.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, family
    CountryUSA, Hungary, France
    Duration01:44

      Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, France

      Alice, a perfect wife and mother who lives happily with her husband and child until the day she discovers her husband is living a double life that has ruined her financially and left her a single mother. Alice fights back and dives into a world beyond anything she has ever known.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryChile, Spain
      Duration01:50

      Gloria is a 58-year-old divorcée. Her children have all left home but she has no desire to spend her days and nights alone. Determined to defy old age and loneliness, she rushes headlong into a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for instant gratification – which only leads to repeated disappointment and enduring emptiness. But when Gloria meets Rodolfo, an ex-naval officer seven years her senior, she begins to imagine the possibility of a permanent relationship.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountrySweden

      Life coach Sven travels to Thailand to fulfil his dreams as a writer. He meets Gitte a yoga-practising free spirit from Norway. Then along comes Anja, an editor who works for a Swedish publisher. What does he really want to do with his life, and who does he want to do it with?

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryIndia

      The story of a television reporter in Mathura who falls in love with a headstrong woman.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:13

      P-A-X-497/341, aka “Pax” , a curious young man from the well-ordered but loveless future, travels to present day New Orleans in search of romance novelist Elizabeth Barrett – whose book he has come upon during an archeological dig in the year 3127. Hoping Elizabeth can explain the concept of love to him, which is now nonexistent in his time, Pax embarks on an adventure filled with new discoveries. Elizabeth introduces Pax to life in the year 2011, filled with love, music and of course, destiny. When Pax doesn’t return to the future by the given deadline, Bob, his fellow scientist, travels back in time to find him. Meanwhile, as Elizabeth helps Pax learn about love, she ends up confiding in her colleague, played by Valerie Harper, about her own upcoming “surprise” engagement.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:41

      It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that moment. So, Lucy tells about the five men she had blind dates with over the past year (Doug, Gabriel, Bobby, Barry, and Luke) and her experiences with each one. But which one of the five men is Lucy about to walk down the aisle with?

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:33

      In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:25

      The Art of Love is composed of several chapters, which follows several Parisian couples.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Italy
      Duration01:30

      When Katie meets Paco they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      Pampered Manhattan housewife Desiree Harper has it all. That is until her husband unexpectedly dumps her for his acupuncturist. Faced with an airtight prenup, Desiree reluctantly lands a job making cupcakes at her father's bakery in Flemington, NJ. She soon discovers there's more to life than 5th Avenue and true love can be even sweeter in small town America.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:38

      A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:00

      Jordan Sanders, a take-no-prisoners tech mogul, wakes up one morning in the body of her 13-year-old self right before a do-or-die presentation. Her beleaguered assistant April is the only one in on the secret that her daily tormentor is now trapped in an awkward tween body, just as everything is on the line.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

        A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountrySpain, Republic of Ireland, France
        Duration01:31

        A dysfunctional love story about an Irish food writer and a politically committed Spanish woman.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom
        Duration02:05

        The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an average life. Their 19-year-old son, Paolo, is having trouble finding an identity, while their 18-year-old daughter, Valentina, has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage. The family goes through a crisis when Carlo begins having an affair, Giulia attempt to seduce the director of a local stage production she is in, and Valentina does what she does best to land an audition for a TV show

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryFrance, Belgium
        Duration01:20

        What happens when a man and a woman share a common passion? They fall in love. And this is what happens to Jean-René, the boss of a small chocolate factory, and Angélique, a gifted chocolate maker he has just hired. What occurs when a highly emotional man meets a highly emotional woman? They fall in love, and this is what occurs to Jean-René and Angélique who share the same handicap. But being pathologically timid does not make things easy for them. So whether they will manage to get together, join their solitudes and live happily ever after is a guessing matter.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France
        Duration01:41

        Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of movie stars comes to visit him giving him back the pleasure of life - but amongst them there are also some young students only striving after his money for the realization of their film projects. The two stories - Monsieur Cinema's and the young people's life - are told in parallel until they come together in the end when the old man plays a role in the film made by the students.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:41

        Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure
        CountryFrance, Italy

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