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10 Best Movies Like Wishful Thinking

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

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#1
Date with an Angel

Date with an Angel

1987★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wishful Thinking for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool...

#2
Meet Cute

Meet Cute

2022★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wishful Thinking for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, heal their traumas, fix their pr...

#3
Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

1992★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wishful Thinking for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life....

#4
Superintelligence

Superintelligence

2020★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wishful Thinking for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, ...

#5
Real Men

Real Men

1987★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wishful Thinking for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind....

#6
What's Love Got to Do with It?

What's Love Got to Do with It?

2023★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Wishful Thinking for fans of Romance & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged ...

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