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10 Best Movies Like The Real Thing

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

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#1
Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007★ 6.3

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

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life fem...

#2
A Nice Girl Like You

A Nice Girl Like You

2020★ 5.8

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

Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend. In an effort to prove him wrong, Lucy creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her...

#3
My Fake Boyfriend

My Fake Boyfriend

2022★ 5.9

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

A young man in a tricky situation follows the advice of his unconventional best friend and uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to keep his awful ex-lover out of his life. ...

#4
French Girl

French Girl

2024★ 6.2

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

Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown in...

#5
My Sassy Girl

My Sassy Girl

2008★ 6.7

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

A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman....

#6
Love Don't Co$t a Thing

Love Don't Co$t a Thing

2003★ 7.6

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

A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool....

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