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10 Best Movies Like Basic Love

If you loved Basic Love, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Basic Love for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A typical story of the classic romantic triangle, where one person ends up having to choose between two others. This time, it is set against a backdrop of offices in Hong Kong, wit...

#2
Love Jones

Love Jones

1997★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Basic Love for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or ...

#3
Love on a Diet

Love on a Diet

2001★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Basic Love for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A depressed, obese woman tries to lose weight in order to win back her ex-boyfriend with the help of a fellow Hong Konger whom she met in Japan....

#4
Love in a Puff

Love in a Puff

2010★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Basic Love for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When the Hong Kong government enacts a ban on smoking cigarettes indoors, hard-core smokers are driven outside and a budding romance develops between two co-workers....

#5
Comrades, Almost a Love Story

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

1996★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Basic Love for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As fri...

#6
Boy Meets Girl

Boy Meets Girl

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Basic Love for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance....

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