Movies like Ruby Sparks: 20 to watch next
If you loved Ruby Sparks (2012) — a comedy, romance and fantasy film directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Ruby Sparks most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like dreams, imaginary friend and therapy. 3 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Passion of Mind 2000★ 5.8
Shares: Drama, Romance
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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How to Please a Woman 2022★ 6.3
Shares: Romance, Comedy, Drama
When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dirty Sexy Saint 2019★ 6.3
Shares: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Clay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn't do committed relationships. This is before he meets Samantha Jamieson, an heiress turned runaway in need of help. When she starts to work as a waitress at his bar, he discovers that she is someone truly special and amazing… someone that could warm his damaged heart.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Sitting in Bars with Cake 2023★ 7.0
Shares: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Extrovert Corinne convinces Jane, a shy, talented baker, to commit to a year of bringing cakes to bars, to help her meet people and build confidence. But when Corinne receives a life-altering diagnosis, the pair faces a challenge unlike anything they've experienced before.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Woman on Top 2000★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Danny Deckchair 2003★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Romance, Drama
An unappreciated laborer's patience reaches breaking point when his girlfriend cancels a romantic holiday. Making light of the situation, he decides to tie hundreds of helium balloons to a chair in an outlandish bid to float to a new life.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The World to Come 2021★ 7.0
Shares: Romance, Drama
In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling 1986★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks back on his life. Drifting off into memories of his troubled childhood, Jo Jo revisits his youth, recalling his eventual rise to fame and the decadence that followed. As he considers his existence, he must decide if he wants to go on living or not.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Enemies, a Love Story 1989★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama, Romance
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Good House 2021★ 6.1
Shares: Romance, Drama, Comedy
When wry New England realtor Hildy Good rekindles a romance with her old high-school flame, Frank Getchell, it ignites long-buried emotions and family secrets that propel Hildy toward a reckoning with the one person she's been avoiding for decades: herself. Based on the best-selling novel by Ann Leary.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Right Kind of Wrong 2013★ 5.9
Shares: Romance, Comedy
A stubborn idealist spies a bride on her way to her wedding and immediately falls in love with her.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Best You Can 2025★ 7.0
Shares: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by the arrival of sharp but chronically underachieving security guard Stan Olszewski in this smart rom-com that reunites Bacon and Sedgwick on screen for the first time in 20 years.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Love Accidentally 2022★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Alexa and Jason are competing for a position at an advertising firm when their partners break up with them. Alexa mistakenly texts Jason, and they start a phone-only relationship. When they meet and the truth comes out, will true love prevail?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Numb 2007★ 5.9
Shares: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Am I OK? 2024★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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She Came to Me 2023★ 6.0
Shares: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapist-turned-wife Patricia suggests he rekindle his creativity by getting lost in the city, Steven sets out in search of inspiration. His epiphany comes after he meets a spirited woman named Katrina and discovers his life has much more potential than he bargained for, or ever could have imagined.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Love & Sex 2000★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama, Romance
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Peggy Sue Got Married 1986★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
At her 25th high school reunion, Peggy Sue faints and awakens in 1960—back in her senior year, before her marriage and all her regrets. Given a second chance to relive her youth, she must decide whether to change the choices that shaped her life or embrace the past that made her who she is.
Stream in India on Sony Pictures Amazon Channel
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Magic in the Moonlight 2014★ 6.5
Shares: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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All of You 2025★ 6.3
Shares: Romance, Drama
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
Stream in India on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel