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10 Best Movies Like Love Is a Funny Thing

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

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#1
Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

1989★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Love Is a Funny Thing for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese bu...

#2
Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1974★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Love Is a Funny Thing for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan....

#3
Magnet of Doom

Magnet of Doom

1963★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Love Is a Funny Thing for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux w...

#4
The Watchmaker of St. Paul

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Love Is a Funny Thing for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with...

#5
Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire

1987★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Love Is a Funny Thing for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting wit...

#6
The Emperor's New Groove

The Emperor's New Groove

2000★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Love Is a Funny Thing for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne and his human form with the help of Pacha, a gentle llama herder....