Unlikely couple movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant unlikely couple movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out romantic, realistic, humorous, sentimental, feel good and sexy films and TV shows about / with unlikely couple, fall in love, love and romance, couples, love, love story, happy ending, mentor, catastrophe and fantasy world plots mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as unlikely couple: Just Like Heaven (2005), Star-Crossed (2014), Life as We Know It (2010), Inadequate People (2010), Jane Eyre (2011), Beastly (2011), It Boy (2013), North & South (2004), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Career Opportunities (1991).
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List of unlikely couple movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Martinson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at ...
Style:
romantic, fairy tale, romantic comedy, rom com, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, unlikely couple, impossible love, love story, initially antagonists, destiny, supernatural romance, happy ending, heaven, doctor, female ghost ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When Emery was 6 years old, an alien spacecraft crash-landed in her small town. Whether they came in peace or with more sinister intentions didn't matter: a fierce battle erupted as humans fought for control over their new rivals, an alien ...
Style:
touching, exciting, serious, sentimental
Audience:
teens
Plot:
interspecies romance, benign alien, forbidden love, teenage life, supernatural romance, unlikely couple, popularity, teenage love, newcomer, high school life, fall in love, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After a distastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have is common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly ...
Style:
touching, romantic, rom com, entertaining, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
adoption, baby, love story, initially antagonists, unlikely couple, parenthood, love and romance, opposites attract, enemies to lovers, godparent, romantic friendship, love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia, hawaii, new jersey, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Adequacy is relative.Vitalik the main character of the movie seems to be pretty normal. With a respectable office job, a comfy little dwelling and a personal couch doctor, Vitalik looks as adequate as a human can possibly be. Wait till he drinks and ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, non-linear, uplifting
Audience:
date night, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, forbidden love, unlikely couple, love and romance, older man younger woman relationship, psychologist, midlife crisis, fall in love, male objectification, life turned upside down, acid, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close ...
Style:
romantic, touching, gothic, atmospheric, visually appealing ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, couples, forbidden love, social differences, power of love, young woman, unlikely couple, fall in love, orphan, older man younger woman relationship, estate ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, ancient times, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the ...
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, modern fairy tale, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen fantasy, date night ...
Plot:
high school, love, teenage love, love story, love and romance, unlikely couple, true love, teen romance, fall in love, curses spells and rituals, beauty and the beast, witch ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Alice Lantins is 38, ambitious and so committed to her work that she neglects her personal life. In short, she is the ideal candidate for the next editor of the magazine Rebelle, or would be were it not for the fact that she appears to be stuck in ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, love affair, love and romance, unlikely couple, sex scene, age difference, fall in love, older woman younger man, couple relations, magazine editor, relationship vs career, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style:
touching, period piece, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, young woman, rich and poor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, owner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 50s, turn of the century, 1850s ...
Place:
england, britain, london
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a deal to preserve a community center. Indecisive and weak-willed George grows dependent on Lucy's guidance on everything from legal matters to ...
Style:
romantic, light, sweet, rom com, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
fall in love, love story, unlikely couple, looking for love, opposites attract, workplace romance, destiny, boss and employee, lawyer, happy ending, love and romance, billionaire ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, teen ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
unlikely couple, hottie, forbidden love, dream girl, coming of age, small town, couples, teenage love, goofy hero, misfit, friends, disorder ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her ...
Style:
indie film, realistic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, opposites attract, relationships, unlikely couple, looking for love, fall in love, family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, sex, passionate love, passion ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective Catherine Chandler is a smart, no-nonsense homicide detective. When she was a teenager, she witnessed the murder of her mother at the hands of two gunmen and herself was saved by someone – or something. Years have passed and while ...
Style:
captivating, fairy tale, sentimental, touching, detective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
beast, beauty and the beast, fall in love, superhuman powers, unlikely couple, opposites attract, female detective, impossible love, couples, love and romance, monster, experiment ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems impervious to his charms. However, as he continues to pursue the indifferent lady, he finds himself ...
Style:
romantic, period piece, costume drama, light, cute ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
casanova, womanizer, unlikely couple, sex, inquisition, masquerade, duchess, nobility, happy ending, lovers, secret lover, beefcake ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 2005, 19th century, georgian era ...
Place:
venice, italy, rome italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Social satire based on the best-seller by Adele Lang humorously chronicles the life of Katya Livingston, a self-centered, obnoxious and conceited 28-year-old ad sales exec who won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
socialite, love, workplace romance, boss and employee, gay friend, true love, manipulative woman, party, unlikely couple, rise to the top, looking for love, lifestyle ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
san francisco, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
Style:
touching, romantic, sexy, sexual, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, marooned, true love, love and romance, island, stranded, teenage life, high school student, lost at sea, tropical island, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
caribbean
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Writer Alex Sheldon (Luke Wilson) must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if that happens, angry Mafia types to whom he owes money will come looking for him. In order to expedite things, Alex hires ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sweet, cute, light ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, unlikely couple, gambling, happy ending, destiny, book, love triangle, workplace romance, casino, twists and turns, love affair, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
boston, philadelphia, massachusetts, switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Ariane Felder is pregnant! This is surprising with her being a young hardened judge with strict morals. But what is more surprising is that, according to paternity testing, the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal from the ...
Style:
not serious, witty, humorous, dark comedy, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, life turned upside down, outdoor sex, singleness, alcohol abuse, false accusation, unlikely relationship, legal, fugitives, disorder, couples ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
French Kiss is director Kasdan’s best film since the Bodyguard. The plot involves a couple in love and one woman’s attempt to fly to Paris to get her lover back from a business trip and marry him. On the way she unknowingly smuggles something of ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, romantic, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
fall in love, unlikely couple, couple relations, unlikely partners, love and romance, smuggling, wine, destiny, vineyard, breakup, escapades, true love ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, riviera, south of france ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, exciting, light, sexy ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, jungle, unlikely couple, opposites attract, chase, adventurer, escapades, jungle adventure, treasure map, travel, map, stranded ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place:
south america, colombia, new york, latin america, central america
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, feel good, funny, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, marriage, love and romance, opposites attract, disorder, unlikely couple, looking for love, sisters, couples, family gatherings ...
Place:
london, europe, england, united kingdom, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An advice columnist, Andie Anderson (Kate Hudson), tries pushing the boundaries of what she can write about in her new piece about how to get a man to leave you in 10 days. Her editor, Lana (Bebe Neuwirth), loves it, and Andie goes off to find a man ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot:
love, love story, fall in love, battle of the sexes, love and romance, relationships, couples, unlikely couple, bet, dating, couple relations, initially antagonists ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, san francisco ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, humorous, parody, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen fantasy, date night, girls' night
Plot:
zombie, prejudice, unlikely couple, couples, female warrior, virus, wooing, zombie survival, looking for love, plague, supernatural, couple relations ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, 2010s, 1800s, victorian era ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Scusa ma ti chiamo amore is a 2008 Italian film starring Raoul Bova and Michela Quattrociocche. Alex Belli (Bova) is a 37 year old advertising executive whose fiancée Elena has just left him, and who is having difficulty at work trying to think of ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sexy, sweet, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
age difference, youth, love and romance, unlikely couple, couples, sex with a minor, teenage sexuality, friendship between teens, teenage life, sex with teenager, love, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, rome italy, italy
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.
Style:
sexy, rom com, teen, cute, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, youth, fall in love, adolescence, couple relations, nerd, sex, high school, teenage love, popular girl, unlikely couple, opposites attract ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of ...
Style:
gothic, feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, unlikely couple, friends, age difference, intergenerational friendship, teenage life, human nature, workplace, follow your dream, odd couple, youth, sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
albuquerque new mexico, new mexico
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young teenage werewolf is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man.
Style:
romantic, gothic, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, transformation, unlikely couple, fall in love, vampire human love, interspecies romance, lycanthropy, adaptation, love and romance, forbidden love, beast ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
bucharest, romania, paris france, europe, colorado
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets Anna who has unfinished business with him.
Style:
witty, light, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
woman urinating, love story, happy ending, unlikely couple, one night stand, friendship, kindergarten, love of one's life, love and romance, couple relations, buddies, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 2008, 1920s
Place:
germany, europe, london, hawaii, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer – and unexpectedly falling in love.
Style:
feel good, romantic, sexy, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids ...
Plot:
dancing, coming of age, love story, summer romance, forbidden love, couples, dancer, fall in love, love and romance, unlikely couple, abortion, dance ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1963, 90s, 1950s ...
Place:
usa, new york state, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving ...
Style:
emotional, scenic, epic, period piece, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
unlikely couple, social differences, opposites attract, desert, fall in love, wilderness, culture clash, couples, love story, prejudice, journey, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2008, year 1939, year 1942 ...
Place:
australia, japan, england, oceania, asia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however, resents their presence and decides she wants to attend school just like a normal student. Her father ...
Style:
teen, romantic, sweet, cute, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
college life, fall in love, usa president, white house, teenager, daughter, president, college, love and romance, couples, cheerleader, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
washington d.c., california, usa, san francisco
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