Movies Like Someone Great for breakup laughs, city nights, and best-friend comfort
Breakup comedies with best-friend energy, big city nights, and healing after long love ends.
Breakup comedies with best-friend energy, big city nights, and healing after long love ends.
Best first watch
The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
89% fit109 min · IMDb 6.4 · RT 80%
Like your seed movie, this turns a breakup into a city-moving comedy about rebuilding yourself with friends nearby. Natalie Krinsky keeps the story moving with gallery-world hustle, late-night New York energy, and Lucy's mementos project, which gives healing a concrete shape. Amanda and Nadine bring the same best-friend energy that makes big city nights feel restorative.
Watch if
You want breakup healing, best-friend energy, and New York romance.
Skip if
Skip if you prefer sharper jokes over earnest healing after love ends.
For you if
- You want rom-coms that start with a breakup instead of a meet-cute.
- You enjoy friendship dynamics that carry as much weight as the romance.
- You need funny, emotionally direct movies with late-night city energy.
Not for you if
- You want fairy-tale courtship and an obvious happy-ever-after from the start.
- You prefer quiet, old-school romances with little partying or chaos.
- You need family-safe comedy with minimal swearing and adult situations.
How Someone Great (2019) alternatives compare
Pick The Broken Hearts Gallery for the clearest breakup-healing arc and a lively New York backdrop. Go with How to Be Single if you want the biggest friend-group chaos and the wildest city-night stretch. Plus One works best for dry banter and a smaller emotional scale. Always Be My Maybe is the smoothest crowd-pleaser. Holidate fits when you want something breezy, seasonal, and low effort.
Friend-group factor
Supportive friend circle
Big city vibe
Downtown New York rush
Breakup healing
Direct healing story
Tired-night ease
Easy and warm
Friend-group factor
Helpful side friends
Big city vibe
City life matters
Breakup healing
Reconnection first
Tired-night ease
Instant crowd-pleaser
Friend-group factor
Big group energy
Big city vibe
NYC all night
Breakup healing
Messy post-split growth
Tired-night ease
Busy ensemble pace
Friend-group factor
Core friendship pair
Big city vibe
Wedding circuit first
Breakup healing
Dating burnout reset
Tired-night ease
Shortest and sharpest
Friend-group factor
Mostly couple-led
Big city vibe
Holiday backdrop first
Breakup healing
Light romantic reset
Tired-night ease
Simple holiday setup
Not sure what to watch?
Date night
The reunion setup, grown-up flirting, and relaxed pace make it easy to settle into together.
Quick watch
At 98 minutes, it gets to the banter fast and stays locked on one easy hook.
Friend group
Its multi-character New York chaos gives everyone a favorite thread and plenty to react to aloud.
Find your pick
Do you want an ensemble comedy about single life and dating chaos, instead of one central romance?
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Best movies like Someone Great (2019)
1. The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020)
109 min · IMDb 6.4 · RT 80%
Like your seed movie, this turns a breakup into a city-moving comedy about rebuilding yourself with friends nearby. Natalie Krinsky keeps the story moving with gallery-world hustle, late-night New York energy, and Lucy's mementos project, which gives healing a concrete shape. Amanda and Nadine bring the same best-friend energy that makes big city nights feel restorative.
Watch if
You want breakup healing, best-friend energy, and New York romance.
Skip if
Skip if you prefer sharper jokes over earnest healing after love ends.
Where to watch
2. Always Be My Maybe (2019)
102 min · IMDb 6.7 · RT 89%
This one is less breakup-driven, yet it scratches the same itch for healing after long love history and missed timing. Nahnatchka Khan builds big city contrast through Sasha's polished world and Marcus's rooted local life, while Veronica and Jenny add relaxed best-friend energy. The pace stays breezy, with jokes carrying the sting of old choices.
Watch if
You want big city romance with best-friend energy and easy healing.
Skip if
Skip if you need a true breakup comedy first.
Where to watch
3. How to Be Single (2016)
110 min · IMDb 6.1 · RT 45%
This is the closest match for big city nights and post-breakup chaos. Christian Ditter turns New York into a playground of hookups, bad decisions, and late bars, while Alice, Robin, Meg, and Lucy bounce off each other with strong best-friend energy. The healing is messier than one long-love breakup story, but the comedy keeps the sting light.
Watch if
You want breakup comedy, big city nights, and louder group chaos.
Skip if
Skip if you want one focused romance instead of several dating threads.
Where to watch
4. Plus One (2019)
98 min · IMDb 6.6 · RT 88%
This one keeps the healing quieter and the setting smaller, but it understands how breakup fatigue can turn friendship into a lifeline. Ben and Alice have the same lived-in best-friend energy, with summer weddings replacing big city nights as the social pressure cooker. The jokes stay dry and quick, and the emotional turn feels adult.
Watch if
You want best-friend energy and low-key healing after dating burnout.
Skip if
Skip if you want a big city breakup comedy with girlfriends.
Where to watch
5. Holidate (2020)
104 min · IMDb 6.2 · RT 45%
Like your seed movie, this starts from breakup frustration and dating burnout, then uses a rule-based setup to turn healing into comedy. John Whitesell leans into holiday set pieces more than big city nights, while Sloane and Jackson build a low-pressure best-friend energy before the romance clicks. The heartbreak stays light and the pace is easy.
Watch if
You want easy healing, holiday jokes, and a light fake-date romance.
Skip if
Skip if you want stronger best-friend energy or big city nights.
Where to watch
Beyond movies
TV shows and books that scratch the same itch
Survival of the Thickest
This is a breakup comedy set in New York, with a woman rebuilding her life after a long relationship ends. It has the same best-friend support system, nightlife spark, and healing-through-chaos energy that makes Someone Great work.
Netflix
Love Life
This modern rom-com follows dating, heartbreak, and the slow process of figuring yourself out after love changes shape. Like Someone Great, it is sharp, city-based, funny, and focused on what relationships leave behind as much as what comes next.
Available for purchase on Prime Video and Google Play and Fandango
Starstruck
This fits the modern rom-com lane with quick jokes, messy adult feelings, and a warm view of friendship alongside romance. It shares Someone Great's contemporary voice and emotional honesty, even while keeping the mood light and lived-in.
Prime Video and Max
You, Again
by Kate Goldbeck
This is a modern rom-com built around messy post-breakup recalibration, city life, and a sharp, funny voice. Like Someone Great, it cares as much about friendship and figuring yourself out in New York as it does about romance.
Available at major bookstores
Common questions about movies like Someone Great (2019)
What is the best movie like Someone Great (2019)?
Based on our analysis, The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020) is the closest match with a 89% fit score. See the full breakdown above for why it earned the top spot.
Which one works best for a girls' night with friends who want different things?
Always Be My Maybe is the safest middle ground. It has romance, jokes, food-world polish, and enough friendship texture through Sasha, Marcus, Veronica, and Jenny to keep the room engaged. If your group wants louder party energy, switch to How to Be Single.
Which one should I avoid if I hate awkward dating disasters?
How to Be Single goes hardest on hookups, bad choices, and public messiness, so it can feel like a long night out you did not ask for. Holidate also leans on family pressure and holiday cringe. Plus One is the gentlest if you want discomfort kept low.
What should I watch if I want to feel better about a breakup by the end?
The Broken Hearts Gallery is built for that mood. Lucy turns heartbreak into something social, funny, and creative, so the healing feels active and hopeful. Always Be My Maybe also leaves you in a warm place, though it centers reconnection more than recovery.
Which is the easiest weeknight pick when I'm tired?
Plus One is the quickest watch here at 98 minutes, and its wedding-to-wedding structure is easy to track. Always Be My Maybe is almost as effortless and gets to its central dynamic fast. How to Be Single asks for more attention because it juggles several dating stories at once.
Which feels most grounded, and which one goes broad?
Plus One feels closest to real adult awkwardness, with Ben and Alice carrying years of baggage into every joke. How to Be Single goes broad, fast, and messy, with New York nightlife pushing each thread into bigger comic beats. Holidate sits in the middle with a high-concept holiday hook.
Where should I start if I want the closest match to a breakup comedy with friend energy?
Start with The Broken Hearts Gallery. It has the clearest healing arc, the strongest big-city breakup setup, and a warm support circle around Lucy. If you want more ensemble chaos after that, move to How to Be Single.
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