Movies Like I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
If you liked I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987), a comedy and drama movie directed by Patricia Rozema, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaSingle dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a…
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CQ (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaA young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi…
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My Old Ass (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedyAn 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. But when Elliott’s "old ass" starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn't…
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Pecker (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaA Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaMillionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his…
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Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)
★ 6/10Also comedyJessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by…
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Class (1983)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaNaive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the…
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The Killing of Sister George (1968)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaThe life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.
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10,000 Saints (2015)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaA sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the…
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I Used to Be Funny (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedySam, an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, weighs whether to join the search for Brooke, a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. As she fights to recover from her trauma and return to the…
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaRecently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and…
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Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaIn the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the…
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Totally F***ed Up (1994)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaGay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers.
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Barney's Version (2010)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaThe picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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Art School Confidential (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaStarting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that…
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Madeline's Madeline (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaMadeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their…
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I Want Your Sex (2026)
★ 6/10Also comedyWhen a naive young man becomes the sexual muse for a renowned and provocative artist, his dream job quickly turns dangerous as he is drawn into an obsessive world of power, betrayal, and murder.
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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyR. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison…
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The Nowhere Inn (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also comedyWhen St. Vincent sets out to make a documentary about her music, the goal is to both reveal and revel in the unadorned truth behind her on-stage persona. But when she hires a close friend to direct, notions of reality…
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Real Women Have Curves (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaIn East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned…