Movies Like It Had to Be You (2000)

It Had to Be You is a 2000 comedy, romance film from Steven Feder with a MovieMagicScore of 6.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Bridal Boot Camp and Brown Sugar.

Comedy Romance

Bridal Boot Camp

2017

When pretty dress-maker Andy joins a motley crew of brides-to-be for a grueling bridal boot camp, where young ladies learn how to become "better" brides, she thinks she's found the perfect place to become the perfect bride. But when Andy meets Casey, a handsome delivery man who doesn't believe in marriage, she starts to question her picture perfect image of her current engagement and what marriage truly means.

5.8

MagicScore

Brown Sugar

2002

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a national magazine and he is a successful, though unfulfilled, hip-hop record company executive. Both come to realize that their true life passions will only be fulfilled by remembering what they learned that day on the corner.

6.6

MagicScore

On the Rocks

2020

Faced with sudden doubts about her marriage, a young New York mother teams up with her larger-than-life playboy father to tail her husband.

6.1

MagicScore

Birth

2004

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

6.0

MagicScore

You Hurt My Feelings

2023

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

6.4

MagicScore

Last Night

2010

Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life, each is thrust into an evening of temptation.

6.1

MagicScore

My Salinger Year

2020

A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.

6.3

MagicScore

Black Widow

1954

When a young stage hopeful is found dead, suspicion falls on her mentor, a successful Broadway producer.

6.3

MagicScore

A Kind of Murder

2016

In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a rich, successful architect and unhappily married to the beautiful but damaged Clara. His desire to be free of her feeds his obsession with Kimmel, a man suspected of brutally murdering his own wife. When Walter and Kimmel's lives become dangerously intertwined, a ruthless police detective becomes convinced he has found the murderer. But as the lines blur between innocence and intent, who, in fact, is the real killer?

5.4

MagicScore

#10

Murder Mystery 2

2023

After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when their billionaire pal is kidnapped from his wedding.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

The Missing Person

2009

John Rosow drinks to forget. He is a former New York City cop turned Chicago-based private investigator. At the last minute, he is hired by someone he's never met to follow a middle-aged male subject on the soon-departing California Zephyr train to Los Angeles.

5.8

MagicScore

#12

Always Be My Maybe

2019

Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha and hometown musician Marcus feel the old sparks of attraction, but struggle to adapt to each other's worlds.

6.6

MagicScore

#13

Something Borrowed

2011

Though Rachel is a successful attorney and a loyal, generous friend, she is still single. After one drink too many at her 30th-birthday celebration, Rachel unexpectedly falls into bed with her longtime crush, Dex -- who happens to be engaged to her best friend, Darcy. Ramifications of the liaison threaten to destroy the women's lifelong friendship, while Ethan, Rachel's confidant, harbors a potentially explosive secret of his own.

6.2

MagicScore

#14

End of Days

1999

On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city and searching for his chosen bride — a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.

6.1

MagicScore

#15

Past Lives

2023

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

7.7

MagicScore

#16

Last Vegas

2013

Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.

6.4

MagicScore

#17

The Night Before

2015

In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

Pixels

2015

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

5.8

MagicScore

#19

Once Upon a Time in America

1984

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

8.4

MagicScore

#20

Love Lies Bleeding

2008

A struggling young couple stumbles upon a cache of dirty money after a shootout in their apartment building.

6.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like It Had to Be You?

The top films similar to It Had to Be You by MovieMagicScore are Bridal Boot Camp (5.8), Brown Sugar (6.6), On the Rocks (6.1). Each shares comedy/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is It Had to Be You worth watching?

It Had to Be You holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.0/10 from 34 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is It Had to Be You?

It Had to Be You (2000) is a comedy, romance film directed by Steven Feder, starring Natasha Henstridge, Michael Vartan, Michael Rispoli.

Where can I find more recommendations like It Had to Be You?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more comedy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like It Had to Be You

This ranked list pairs It Had to Be You (2000), a comedy and romance film from Steven Feder, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Natasha Henstridge take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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