20 best movies like Dating Rules from My Future Self (2012)

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea

Set in the Joseon Dynasty period, a romance takes place between cold-hearted Gyun-Woo and Princess Hyemyung who causes troubles.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Laura and Ryan are perfect for each other: they both love Meryl Streep, have been totally destroyed by previous relationships, and they have no idea what they are supposed to do tonight. They also both know that they'll have to pretend to be completely different to how they've ever been previously, in the hope of getting it right this time. How bad can a second date really go and what is there to lose? Ryan and Laura are about to find out.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:52

Birthday girl Olivia realizes she’s been “swiping left on life.” Feeling like she’s been missing out, Olivia goes on a swiping rampage and vows to date all 252 of her matches.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:41

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:46

No beau? No problem! To earn money for college, a high schooler creates a dating app that lets him act as a stand-in boyfriend.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration02:04

Frank and Lindsay—two emotionally-broken strangers—meet on the way to a destination wedding. Over the course of the weekend and against all odds, they find themselves drawn together even though they are initially repulsed by one another.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

When a cosmic event turns Emma's dog and cat into two perfect guys, Emma reconsiders her outlook on dating, hilariously works out her trust issues, and ultimately learns to love herself.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryUSA

Writer-director Randall Miller's heart-achingly sweet drama centers on the unsatisfying personal life of protagonist Frank Keane, a sensitive baker who remains deeply despondent over his late wife's untimely death. When Frank helps a stranger who's sidelined by a fatal accident on his way to a fateful reunion, he decides to show up for the rendezvous in the man's place. In the process, he finds hope and redemption.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:22

A quirky couple spends their three-year dating anniversary looking back at their relationship and contemplating whether they should break up.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:49

Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.

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: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryCanada, USA

Spencer is a cat person. Laura is a dog person. Spencer is headed to a beach town to work on his thesis. Laura is coming to the same beach town to escape the shambles of her life. Their personalities couldn’t be more different, but when a reservation screw up lands them – and their pets – in the same vacation rental house, they all have to figure out how to get along with each other.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:30

The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty reality-TV host while also preparing for their extended family to arrive for a major celebration.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:11

Lifelong friends Kate (Mamrie Hart), Evie (Grace Helbig) and Charlie (Hannah Hart) are in a rut. Kate spends her days at a middling job and her nights alone or on failed dates. Evie is married with the in-laws from hell, wandering from one charitable cause to the next. Charlie has the girl of her dreams but just can’t seem to pull her business (or her act) together. On the eve of Kate’s 30th birthday, she agrees to let Evie and Charlie throw her a party. But what’s supposed to be a simple celebration becomes a wild who’s who of past and present, and things quickly spiral out of control.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a wedding, it's only natural that the two of them go home together and, despite their better judgment, begin to find themselves falling for each other.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:31

Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

After years of putting her career ahead of love, stand-up comic Andrea Singer has stumbled upon the perfect guy. On paper, he checks all the boxes but is he everything he appears to be?

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

Amateur 'chefs' from around the country compete for a million dollar prize in the ultimate food fight.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:41

Marion and Ben, thirty years old, meet on Tinder. That's about all they have in common; but the opposites attract each other, and they decide in the early morning of their meeting to go on vacation together despite the advice of their entourage. They will finally leave - to Bulgaria, halfway to their dream destinations: Beirut for Marion, Biarritz for Ben. Without a precise plan and, as they will soon discover, with very different conceptions of what a dream holiday should be.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

When a successful television writer's daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about how to handle the situation.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:17

The neurological inner workings of romantic relationships between men and women are studied for science.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family, documentary
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, biography
CountryUSA, Cambodia, Romania
Duration02:11

    Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    The film is composed of multiple comedy shorts presented through an overarching segment titled "The Pitch", in which Charlie Wessler, a mad screenwriter, is attempting to pitch a script to film executive Griffin Schraeder. After revealing several of the stories in his script, Wessler becomes agitated when Schraeder dismisses his outrageous ideas, and he pulls a gun on him and forces him to listen to multiple other stories before making Schraeder consult his manager, Bob Mone, to purchase the film.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:03

    In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Leah thinks all is fine coasting along in a relationship with the ever-predictable Edward until he surprises her and enrolls her in a conflict-management class. In the class, Leah finds herself locking horns with a handsome, radio talk-show host who thrives on making waves. Through the course, Leah develops new friendships, an inner strength she never knew she had and discovers real love should never mean settling for the easy and predictable.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    An insider's look at the reckless, romantic, funny, and often poignant lives of a committed group of "roadies," who live for music and the de facto family they've formed along the way.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:26

    Two overworked and underpaid assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    A lawyer takes on a new client that wants to sue a dating website because it guarantees love.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA

    Following the launch of her new novel, 35-year-old writer Kate Conklin is invited to speak at her alma mater by her mentor and former professor. After accepting the invitation, Kate finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of an eccentric group of college students.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    Linda Watt is a sheltered but brilliant young scientist who is plucked out of her company's lab and sent to India by her CEO to sell "Rice 9," a genetically modified rice she's created. However, unbeknownst to her, the rice will destroy the Indian farmers she thinks she's helping.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:03

      The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama
      CountryLithuania, USA

      In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her blind date with Miles, a handsome guy she's been set up with. In a strange twist of fate, Kate is given the chance to re-live Christmas Eve twelve times.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration05:46

      When over-the-top Amy enters Allison’s organized but imperfect life and claims to be her guardian angel, they form an unlikely friendship and Allison can’t be sure if Amy is actually an angel or just nuts.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:31

      Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Freshman Neil's Vanguard stories are all he cares about...until he meets the older Julia, who pushes him to put his own fan fic online. When the website's moderator takes a special interest in Neil's work, it opens up a whole new universe.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Japan
      Duration02:33

        Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        Two wounded souls commiserate through drinking and aimless wandering while acting out the roles of the happy relationships that elude them in reality. Greta Gerwig and Olly Alexander deliver beautifully-tuned comic performances in their portrayal of young adults learning to cope with the unavoidable perils of emotional dependency.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:36

        A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA

        Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.




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