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If you like this romcom, watch this older (and probably better) romcom

I Married a Witch
★★★★

I Married a Witch inspired the Bewitched TV show. Bell, Book and Candle is also very similar. 

Come Live with Me
★★★★

Similar elements include green card marriage, the publishing industry, and a grandmother who helps get the couple together. 

Love Affair
★★★★

Love Affair was remade the same director, Leo McCarey as An Affair to , which is directly referenced throughout Sleepless in Seattle. 

Shrek
★★★★½

Lord Farquaad is inspired by Prince Humperdinck.

The Awful Truth
★★★★

Other comedies of remarriage include The Philadelphia Story, My Favorite Wife, The Palm Beach Story, Love Crazy, and their countless remakes. 

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His Girl Friday
★★★★★

A gender bent adaptation of The Front Page. Switching Channels is a direct remake. 

The Princess Bride
★★★★½

Both films are fairytale deconstructions inspired by Tristan & Isolde, which also inspired Vertigo and Mulan/Aurora’s romance in Once Upon a Time

The Shop Around the Corner
★★★★★

Both are based off of the play The Parfumerie, which also inspired the MGM musical In the Good Old Summertime and the Broadway musical She Loves Me

I Love You Again
★★★

Both romantic comedies feature chaotic couples falling in love again after cases of amnesia. 

Intolerable Cruelty
★★★

Intolerable Cruelty is inspired by the comedy of remarriage subgenre that The Awful Truth is the pinnacle of. 

Down with Love
★★★★★

Down With Love is an affectionate parody of 50s/60s sex comedies, specifically Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back (both starring Doris/Rock/Tony) and Sex and the Single Girl. Tony Randall cameos in his final role. 

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The Pirate
★★★½

Gene Kelly’s character, like Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood, is the blueprint followed by the leading men in The Princess Bride, The Pirates of the Caribbean, and Tangled. Gene Kelly’s character in DuBarry Was a Lady a similar character reminiscent of Robin Hood. 

Pillow Talk
★★★★

Besides the aforementioned, similar movies include Send Me No Flowers, Move Over Darling, That Touch of Mink, and Man’s Favorite Sport.

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Cactus Flower
★★★★

Cactus Flower was remade as the inferior Just Go With It.

It Happened One Night
★★★★½

Inspired countless remakes and the blueprint for romantic comedies such as, Roman Holiday, It’s a Wonderful World, The Philadelphia Story, and Leap Year

Kiss Me Kate
★★★½

Based off of The Taming of the Shrew. Other notable adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew include Woman of the Year and Moonlighting’s Atomic Shakespeare.