20 best movies like Week-End with Father (1951)

List of the best movies like Week-End with Father (1951): Stop the Wedding, Coffee Shop, Behaving Badly, Isn't It Romantic, Kristin's Christmas Past, Love, Simon, Love on the Slopes, Palm Swings, The Thing About Harry, Appetite for Love.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryCanada, USA

A meddling man and woman determined to stop a wedding for the good of the bride and groom instead wind up falling in love with each other.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

When a young coffee shop owner is threatened with repossession she must take a chance with life and love as she fights to save her business.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Teenager Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to win the heart of Nina Pennington. He'll have to deal with his best friend's horny mom, a drug abusing boss and even the mob if he ever hopes to land the girl of his dreams. Love is never easy!

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA
Duration02:36

For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
CountryUSA

Given the opportunity to revisit her estranged family on Christmas Eve, 1996, Kristin Cartwright discovers that while its impossible to change the past, its important to learn from it.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it's a little more complicated: he's yet to tell his family or friends he's gay and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate he's fallen for online.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada

NYC-based copy editor, Alex, is sent to Ridgeline Resort, an extreme sports outpost, to write a story for a travel writing competition. At first, she fails at everything – much to the chagrin of Cole, an extreme sports enthusiast who thinks this city girl should head back to New York. But when Alex offers to assist Cole with his local arts festival, he reluctantly obliges to be her guide as she faces her fears doing one extreme sport after the next.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

After moving to Palm Springs, a young married couple puts their love to the test when they discover that their neighbors are swingers.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA

Two high school enemies, uber-jock Harry and out-and-proud Sam, are forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend's engagement party on Valentine's Day. Things take a turn when Sam learns Harry has come out.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

Mina has everything going for her, but her world is turned upside down when work sends her to her hometown in Tennessee where she must convince an old, stubborn restaurant owner to sell his property. There is just one problem- the restaurant is now owned by her ex-boyfriend Clay, who claims he will never sell. He resists her negotiations every step of the way, and all the while sparks fly.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical
CountryUSA

Set to a new wave '80s soundtrack, a pair of young lovers from different backgrounds defy their parents and friends to stay together.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryUSA

After getting his heart broken by his childhood sweetheart, Tom Campbell escaped from his home town to join the military. Years later, Tom returns home with the news of his grandmother’s failing health and business. A town treasure, Cupid’s is known for its enchanting reputation of guiding guests to find love. Chelsea, the mayor and Tom’s ex-flame, takes advantage of this bad news and devises a scheme to get the property sold to make way for a mall. Although pressured to save the bed and breakfast, Tom’s history of heart break makes it difficult to stand up for such a symbol of love. Sharing in his skepticism of love is Nancy, a new police officer in town. With Nancy’s encouragement, Tom just might make the effort to keep the landmark afloat after all.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Argentina
Duration02:24

Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires working a very dangerous scheme when Jess -- now an accomplished femme fatale -- unexpectedly shows up. Her appearance throws Nicky for a loop at a time when he cannot afford to be off his game.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

'Divorce Invitation' centers on Mike Christian, a happily married man who runs into his high school sweetheart Alex, and after all these years, sparks still fly. When Mike is determined Alex is his true soul mate, he realizes he has a huge problem-he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife will not let him out of the marriage

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

When a San Francisco exec wins a New Zealand inn, she ditches city life to remodel and flip the rustic property with help from a handsome contractor.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

    On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh's dying father happy. Things quickly get out of hand with their two boisterous families, and a series of events causes them to pretend to be a couple and start planning a phony wedding. When the playacting begins to foster real feelings, the two must make some serious decisions: Split up and return to their lives in LA, or make a life as a couple back in Chicago?

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
    CountryUSA

    To the Mat tells the story of a laid-back ex-wrestler (Ricky Schroder) who's trying to keep his family's down-and-out Southern wrestling school above water. When his mother hires an uptight Wall Street consultant from New York (Laura Bell Bundy) to help get the books in order, these two opposites must find a way to get along and save the family business.

    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: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA

      When ambitious reporter Allie Rusch is recruited by vindictive music manager Vivian Cartwright to play cupid to famous pop musicians Caleb Greene and Carson Peet in return for an exclusive story over Valentine's weekend, Allie soon realizes Caleb has his sights set on her. Now, torn between her big career move and her growing feelings for Caleb, Allie is left to question whether she can coerce Caleb into something his heart does not desire, or if she should fall in love and make him her very own Valentine.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
      CountryUSA

      Organizing a Christmas wedding is a true treat for bridal boutique owner Madeline Krug. She loves the challenge of finding the perfect dress for the bride and orchestrating an exquisite event. What Madeline didn’t expect was to be swept off her feet by the bride’s gorgeous brother, movie star, Jonny Blaze. Jonny came to the quirky town of Fool’s Gold to support his sister -- not to fall in love. Yet Madeline is the most extraordinary woman he’s ever met, and she finds the real Jonny even more captivating than her celebrity crush. Will the action star be brave enough to take on the role of a lifetime?

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:16

      Croydon, 1977. A trio of punk teenagers goes to a party to meet girls, but they find that girls there are very different from what they expected.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before long, the two are locked in a battle of wits for the woman they both love-and it appears only one man can be left standing when it's over.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, short
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:20

      In a Relationship is a spirited yet achingly tender look at modern love. Shot mockumentary style, this short film follows two young couples in opposite stages of romance: Matt and Willa, who have been hooking up for six days, and Owen and Abby, who are trying in vain to breathe new life into a five year relationship that is growing stale. It's an exploration of the grey areas of contemporary dating and how much we keep from the people we're closest to.

      Markimdb: 9
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A dog who strives to become a man seeks a woman who will love him enough for the transformation to take place.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A freelance illustrator in New York suffers a quarter-life crisis and leaves his home for the west coast.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

        A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA

        "Muffin Top: A Love Story" is the story of Suzanne (Cathryn Michon) a Women's Studies Pop Culture professor at Malibu University, who studies images of women in the media for a living, and yet is made insecure by the constant parade of female perfection that is our airbrushed culture. She has been going through IVF treatments to get pregnant by her network executive husband (Diedrich Bader), but discovers on her birthday, that her husband has knocked up his younger, skinnier, co-worker (Haylie Duff) and wants a divorce. Happy Birthday! She goes on to find a more authentic version of who she really is, despite the delights of being suddenly single in Los Angeles, where low self-esteem for women is our number one export to the world.

        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.




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