If You Liked The Lonely Guy, Watch These Next
Finished The Lonely Guy (1984) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Lonely Guy, most of them are comedy, romance.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Your Place or Mine(2023)
6.2RomanceComedyAlso romance and comedy
When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love.
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2.Crossing Delancey(1988)
5.9ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find her a romantic match, Isabelle is courted by a married, worldly author, Anton, yet can't seem to shake the down-to-earth appeal of Sam, a…
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3.Relationship Goals(2026)
6.4RomanceComedyAlso romance and comedy
When TV producer Leah Caldwell aims to become the first woman running New York's top morning show, her ex competes for the same role. Leah stays focused on her career, until chemistry with her ex challenges her priorities.
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4.Yoh! Bestie(2026)
6.3RomanceComedyAlso romance and comedy
Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.
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5.Isn't It Romantic(2019)
6.2ComedyFantasyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
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…
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6.Little Italy(2018)
6.6ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
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7.Easy Virtue(2008)
6.5ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
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8.Good Advice(2001)
5.9ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's really important in life.
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10.Only the Lonely(1991)
6.2ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.
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11.Chasing Papi(2003)
6.7ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored socialite Patricia -- spiral out of control, he suffers a mental breakdown. His doctor recommends that…
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12.The Kissing Booth 2(2020)
7.6ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate.
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13.Happy Together(1989)
5.9ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Christopher is an ambitious college freshman, striving to become a writer. Through a computer fault he's assigned the same room as Alex, a real party freak and... a girl! He's annoyed and tries to get a different room as soon as possible, but when he learns to know her, he also starts to like her. She not only…
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14.People We Meet on Vacation(2026)
7.0ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Poppy's a free spirit. Alex loves a plan. After years of summer vacations, these polar-opposite pals wonder if they could be a perfect romantic match.
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15.The Wrong Paris(2025)
6.7RomanceComedyAlso romance and comedy
Dawn thinks she's joining a dating show in Paris, France, only to land in Paris, Texas. She has an exit plan — until sparks fly with the cowboy bachelor.
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16.The Rebound(2009)
6.5RomanceComedyAlso romance and comedy
Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny, and it isn't long until Aram and Sandy find out they get along wonderfully and start to date. But…
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17.Barefoot in the Park(1967)
7.1ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
In this film based on a Neil Simon play, newlyweds Corie, a free spirit, and Paul Bratter, an uptight lawyer, share a sixth-floor apartment in Greenwich Village. Soon after their marriage, Corie tries to find a companion for mother, Ethel, who is now alone, and sets up Ethel with neighbor Victor. Inappropriate…
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18.Keeping the Faith(2000)
6.1ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful corporate executive, suddenly returns to the city, she reenters Jake and Brian's…
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19.Speechless(1994)
6.0RomanceComedyAlso romance and comedy
In the midst of election season in New Mexico, political speechwriters Julia Mann and Kevin Vallick begin a romance, unaware they are working for candidates on opposite sides.
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20.Sidelined: The QB and Me(2025)
6.4ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Dallas, a burdened but headstrong dancer, is determined to get into the best dance school in the country—her late mother’s alma mater. However, that dream is suddenly derailed when the cheeky yet secretly grieving football star, Drayton, crashes into her life with a unique story of his own. Will the two of them be…
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