20 movies like Room to Rent, ordered by similarity : Another Year(2010), The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz(1974), Queen of Hearts(1989), Ramji Londonwaley(2005), Dean Spanley(2008), Tumhari Sulu(2017), Life Is a Miracle(2004), A Good Marriage(1982), Turtle Diary(1985), Brassed Off(1996), Funny Cow(2017), Husband Material(2018) ...
Comedy, Drama
France|UK
2000
94 Minutes
Saïd Taghmaoui Juliette Lewis Rupert Graves Anna Massey Clémentine Célarié Karim Belkhadra
immigrant screenwriter photographer impersonator student blind woman lighthearted witty campy offbeat london restaurant rooming house dance studio nightclub england immigration poverty marriage of convenience ambition
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. ... See full summary »
Drama, Comedy
UK|USA
2010
129 Minutes
Jim Broadbent Ruth Sheen Lesley Manville Oliver Maltman Peter Wight David Bradley Martin Savage Karina Fernandez Michele Austin Philip Davis Imelda Staunton
husband friend wife psychiatrist son lawyer amusing moving charming england house family marriage relationships heartbreak matchmaking husband/wife relationship quest love forbidden love
A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.
Comedy, Drama
Canada
1974
121 Minutes
Richard Dreyfuss Micheline Lanctôt Jack Warden Randy Quaid Joseph Wiseman Denholm Elliott Henry Ramer Joe Silver Zvee Scooler Robert Goodier Allan Rosenthal
jew father uncle girlfriend grandfather gangster cheeky confident witty rousing montreal quebec resort laurentian mountains anti-semitism ambition poverty family dysfunction love honor
In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1989
112 Minutes
Vittorio Duse Joseph Long Anita Zagaria Eileen Way Vittorio Amandola Ian Hawkes Tat Whalley Ray Marioni Sarah Hadaway Jimmy Lambert
husband wife mother-in-law son jilted lover shop owner touching emotional creative italy small town london coffee shop house true love family immigrants small business luck underdog
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a café in an Italian neighborhood. One day their father loses the... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
India
2005
180 Minutes
Samita Bangargi Harsh Chhaya Aditya Lakhia Madhavan Akhilendra Mishra Satish Shah Raj Zutshi Shikha Shalu Varma
villager brother sister father-in-law in-law young woman hilarious lighthearted hysterical madcap india village house bungalow united kingdom restaurant marriage marriage of convenience marrying for money immigration
A small-town cook moves to London to earn a living, but from his employer's sudden death to the immigration officials on his trail, plans soon go sour.
Comedy, Drama
New Zealand|UK
2008
100 Minutes
Jeremy Northam Sam Neill Bryan Brown Peter O'Toole Judy Parfitt Art Malik
father son dean guru cleric lawyer charming moving witty offbeat england university rural community father/son relationship death spirit world memory reincarnation dog transformation
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian, they start a strange journey that eventually allows the old man to find his heart.
Comedy, Drama
India
2017
140 Minutes
Vidya Balan Neha Dhupia Manav Kaul Vijay Maurya Santanu Ghatak Trupti Khamkar Malishka Mendonsa Sindhu Shekharan Uday Lagoo Abhishek Sharma Seema Taneja
wife husband son friend boss confident spirited passionate emotional inspiring lighthearted india city house restaurant school love chasing dreams couples love
Sulu is an ambitious housewife with a loving husband and a happy family. Things start changing for her when she accidentally lands a job as a radio jockey and her show becomes an instant hit.
Comedy, Drama, War
Serbia|France|Italy
2004
154 Minutes
Slavko Stimac Natasa Solak Vesna Trivalic Vuk Kostic Aleksandar Bercek Stribor Kusturica Nikola Kojo Mirjana Karanovic Davor Janjic Adnan Omerovic Obrad Durovic
engineer wife son soldier nurse lover madcap dark charming chilling bosnia serbia railroad tracks battlefield house war star-crossed lovers railroad prison life love
What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
Comedy, Drama
France
1982
97 Minutes
Béatrice Romand André Dussollier Féodor Atkine Arielle Dombasle Huguette Faget Thamila Mezbah Sophie Renoir Herve Duhamel Pascal Greggory Virginie Thévenet Denise Bailly
college student best friend married man boyfriend attorney witty charming relaxing engaging paris university apartment shop cathedral france marriage friendship unrequited love art single life
Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1985
95 Minutes
Glenda Jackson Ben Kingsley Richard Johnson Michael Gambon Rosemary Leach Eleanor Bron Harriet Walter Jeroen Krabbé Nigel Hawthorne
author woman bookseller man zookeeper turtle charming endearing tender london bookstore zoo sea beach england writer's block animal rights unusual romance turtles aquatic life
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1996
109 Minutes
Pete Postlethwaite Tara Fitzgerald Ewan McGregor Jim Carter Philip Jackson Peter Martin Stephen Tompkinson Sue Johnston Mary Healey Lill Roughley Melanie Hill
miner musician conductor government official amusing emotional raw tender grimley, england coal mine village london music business competition love investigation quest underdog love
The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2017
102 Minutes
Stephen Graham Paddy Considine Maxine Peake Alun Armstrong Christine Bottomley Kevin Eldon Tony Pitts Hannah Walters Diane Morgan Adam Gillen John Bishop
comedian woman abusive boyfriend love interest amusing charming confident emotional heartwarming playful northern england comedy club comedy rise to stardom forbidden love temptation transformation underdog quest 20th century
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's clubs.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India
2018
150 Minutes
Tapsee Pannu Abhishek Bachchan Vicky Kaushal Jasmin Bajwa Ashnoor Kaur Abdul Quadir Amin Saurabh Sachdeva
young woman dj bank employee father mother emotional intense melodramatic inspiring heartwarming charming india disco love triangle loveless marriage wedding true love unconditional love forbidden love love
A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.
Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
India
1994
195 Minutes
Madhuri Dixit Salman Khan Anupam Kher Mohnish Bahl Renuka Shahane Reema Lagoo Alok Nath
man woman student baby amusing heartwarming suspenseful house india relationships love family love 1990s
Prem and Nisha meet and fall in love at the wedding of their elder siblings, but their plans to be together are put in jeopardy when Nisha's sister dies, leaving behind a baby.
Comedy, Drama
Germany
1999
101 Minutes
Denis Lavant Chulpan Khamatova Philippe Clay Terrence Gillespie E.J. Callahan Djoko Rossich Catalina Murgea Tudor Georgiev
swimming instructor attendant blind man beautiful woman swimmer love interest charming amusing witty playful cheeky lighthearted swimming pool cathedral inner city father/son relationship blindness new love entertainment family
In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Comedy, Drama
India|USA|Italy|Germany|France|UK
2001
100 Minutes
bride father uncle photographer love interest amusing dreamy lighthearted hilarious india house love wedding wealth infidelity tradition family dysfunction love discovery 2000s
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
93 Minutes
Ginger Rogers Joel McCrea Marjorie Rambeau Henry Travers Miles Mander Queenie Vassar Joan Carroll Vivienne Osborne Carmen Morales Gene Morgan Mara Alexander
husband prostitute alcoholic mother love interest grandmother disheartening quirky touching primrose hill house beach restaurant nightclub family dysfunction poverty marriage suicide attempt secret life accidental death
A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
Comedy, Drama
India
2017
128 Minutes
Rajkummar Rao Shruti Haasan Gautam Gulati Darshan Jariwala Ninad Kamat Ranjeet
young man young woman neighbor love interest friend indian amusing charming playful lighthearted engaging cheeky india neighborhood love interest young love first love expedition tradition family
Gattu (Rajkummar Rao) has a problem, he loves Binny (Shruti Haasan) who lives in their neighborhood. But everyone says that the girls of the neighborhood should be treated as own sister or ... See full summary »
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2012
94 Minutes
Bruce Willis Edward Norton Bill Murray Frances McDormand Tilda Swinton Jared Gilman Kara Hayward Lucas Hedges Charlie Kilgore Andreas Sheikh Chandler Frantz
boy girl mother father police captain scout dreamy quirky witty island wilderness new penzance new england on the run running away young love search family dysfunction misunderstanding storm
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India|UK
2007
140 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Tabu Paresh Rawal Zohra Segal Vinay Jain Krishna Bhatt Kanwal Toor Nikhil Ratnaparkhi Pradeep Shukla Jameel Khan
older man mother restaurant owner young woman fiancée restaurant employee offbeat emotional london family home restaurant kitchen india city courtship family dysfunction romance journey relationships disapproval
An egotistical 64-year-old chef and confirmed bachelor falls for a woman 30 years his junior.