20 best movies like The Art of Breaking Up (2005)

List of the best movies like The Art of Breaking Up (2005): Virgin Territory, Permission, Their Finest, Save the Date, Juliet, Naked, A Date for Mad Mary, Black Cat, White Cat, The Perfect Date, Something Borrowed, Whatever Works.

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Markimdb: 4.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, history
CountryItaly, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg
Duration01:37

The film is set in Tuscany during the Black Death. As in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance and swordplay. There are randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:00

A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, France
Duration02:21

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

After breaking up with her boyfriend, a bookstore manager resists a seemingly perfect guy's attempts to woo her.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:34

Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRepublic of Ireland

"Mad" Mary McArdle returns to Drogheda after a short spell in prison for something she'd rather forget. Back home, everything and everyone has changed. Her best friend, Charlene, is about to get married and Mary is maid of honor. When Charlene refuses Mary a 'plus one' on the grounds that she probably couldn't find a date, Mary becomes determined to prove her wrong.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
CountryYugoslavia, France, Germany, Austria, Greece
Duration02:15

Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance
Duration01:40

Michel dreams of a perfect meeting with the woman of his dreams, entirely due to chance, as his parents and grandparents experienced. Vincent, Michel's contrast, is completely different. He is more the man of the direct approach and he follows his...! The two childhood friends Michel and Vincent, with completely opposite views when it comes to women, soon discover the limits of their respective techniques when they meet Angèle and Nathalie.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

    Though Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to be engaged to her best friend, Darcy (Kate Hudson). Ramifications of the liaison threaten to destroy the women's lifelong friendship, while Ethan (John Krasinski), Rachel's confidant, harbors a potentially explosive secret of his own.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:32

    Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of "whatever works."

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration02:17

    A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:21

    On the eve of Nikhil and Karishma’s engagement, Karishma’s wealthy father, Devesh Solanki, expresses his disapproval, believing Nikhil to be a lackadaisical young man. With one week to prove himself worthy to marry Karishma, Nikhil and Karishma's sister, Meeta, grow closer to each other.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Four years into his first stable relationship, a man finds out that he is pregnant with his partner's baby.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:14

    Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance

    In 1993, Max was 13 when he was offered his first camera. For 25 years he will not stop filming. The bunch of friends, the loves, the successes, the failures. From the 90s to the 2010s, it is the portrait of a whole generation that is emerging through its objective.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryIndia
    Duration01:54

    A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryThailand
    Duration02:10

    During the Songkran festival, two strangers who had never met before end up going home together, perhaps finding love.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:35

    Ellie Hamilton is helping plan her little sister’s wedding taking place in Acapulco. With the nuptials just a few days away—and no sign yet of the bride and groom—Ellie must work with her ex-boyfriend to make last minute decisions and stall worried family and guests.

    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: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Doris Day, in her film debut, plays Georgia Garrett, a singer sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, history
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:59

    1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance

    Gabriell is a single mother, her 17-year-old daughter Claire is pregnant, however the child's father Simon has no desire to be involved with his future baby. When Gabrielle takes matters into her own hands and asks Simon's father Ange for help, an unexpected relationship begins.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:37

    When their plane is rerouted due to a hurricane warning, two single female best friends find themselves competing for the same guy during an extended layover in St. Louis.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryIndia

    ‘Ninnu Kori’ is essentially a love story but set against an unusual backdrop. Circumstances tear a much-in-love couple apart and they have to get used to the reality — until fate intervenes to show them life’s full of surprises.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, Monaco, USA
    Duration01:45

    Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually falling for a sexy, sophisticated attorney.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryAustralia

    Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren’s mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Revolves around three friends who have dream weddings only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.

    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: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:28

    A romantic comedy about Jean-Marc who is a convinced bachelor and also very busy. So busy that he almost missed his own daughters wedding ceremony...

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China, Japan
    Duration02:19

    Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must figure out if the proud papa is Mark or Jack.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:51

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    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryBelgium, Canada, France
    Duration02:30

    Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional duties while openly flirting with a much younger server. It's going to be a very long night… especially once the groom's aerial serenade gets underway.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryDenmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany
    Duration01:51

    Romantic comedy from Academy Award winner Susanne Bier (Brothers, In a Better World), about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A woman at rock bottom must find her way across Los Angeles in order to crash her ex-boyfriend's engagement party.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    A panicked young woman and her two best friends fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau, who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:38

    Thirty-somethings Michaël, Nabil and Sylvain head to New York to surprise their friend Samia on her birthday, secretly arranged with the help of another friend, Gabrielle. The two women had moved to NYC two years previously to try their luck. Samia shares a fabulous loft with a renowned American actress and works as her assistant. Gabrielle has a more mundane job in a small retirement home. Transposed to New York, the close bonds formed over the years between the five friends from a housing project on the outskirts of Paris take on a different aspect. The laughter and emotion is dictated by the adventures they share during their stay, from the daily lives of the women to the discovery of this cult city.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military, music
    CountrySerbia, France, Italy
    Duration02:35

    Set during the Bosnian war in the early 1990s, Luka is a mild-mannered railway clerk whose life is turned upside down, not just by the outbreak of the war, but when his wife runs off with a local musician. Then Luka's son is conscripted and eventually captured in the fighting. To recover his son, Luka is commanded to guard a pretty young Muslim nurse who will be used in a hostage swapping operation.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:14

    Bored with Bollywood movies but fascinated with their Hollywood counterparts from his youth, Ram dreams to become a singer and actor in America, the country where dreams are made. He is encouraged when his American-based close friend, Vijay Rao, comes for visit, and brags about driving a Mercedes and living in a penthouse.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany, Italy, France
    Duration01:26

    Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:28

    Sidney is a writer who's just left her L.A. Times music review gig to edit New York hip-hop magazine XXL. Dre is an executive with a hip-hop record company based in New York. They've known each other since they met as children, when both discovered hip-hop for the first time. Now that they're back together, they should be perfect for each other, except that Dre's about to marry lawyer Reese and Sidney claims not to be interested in Dre romantically. Meanwhile, Dre is growing increasingly restless with his company's focus on profit over artistry, which leads to signing the gimmicky duo Ren and Ten while ignoring the talented Chris

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    When an idealistic romantic gets fired from his day job, he is offered a "one-time gig" to break up a girl's relationship for her disapproving parents. This "one-time" gig spreads through word-of-mouth and he ends up becoming a professional match-breaker. However, he ends up falling for one of his clients and must figure out how to balance his secret job with his love-life.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Robbie, a local rock star turned wedding singer, is dumped on the day of his wedding. Meanwhile, waitress Julia finally sets a wedding date with her fiancée Glenn. When Julia and Robbie meet and hit it off, they find that things are more complicated than anybody thought.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance

    A coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in amongst a varied cast of characters.




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