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Movies Like Fish Bowl

If you liked Fish Bowl, a movie directed by Rachel Sweeney, 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.

  1. 1Overboard

    Overboard (1987)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees…

  2. 2Regretting You

    Regretting You (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Morgan Grant and her daughter Clara explore what's left behind after a devastating accident reveals a shocking betrayal and forces them to confront family secrets, redefine love, and rediscover each other.

  3. 3Shark Tale

    Shark Tale (2004)

    ★ 6/10

    Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into…

  4. 4One Day

    One Day (2011)

    ★ 7.4/10

    After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

  5. 5Fisherman's Friends

    Fisherman's Friends (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.

  6. 6A Hollywood Christmas

    A Hollywood Christmas (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Jessica, a young, up-and-coming filmmaker in Hollywood has made a name for herself directing Christmas movies. But when handsome network executive Christopher shows up threatening to halt production on her latest…

  7. 7May December

    May December (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

  8. 8After We Fell

    After We Fell (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin, who is furious when he discovers the…

  9. 9This Is Where I Leave You

    This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…

  10. 10Wasp

    Wasp (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go…

  11. 11Maudie

    Maudie (2016)

    ★ 7.8/10

    Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.

  12. 12Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

    Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)

    ★ 6/10

    Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking…

  13. 13Hamnet

    Hamnet (2025)

    ★ 7.7/10

    The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

  14. 14The Dink

    The Dink (2026)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Desperate to save a struggling country club and earn his father's respect, a washed-up tennis pro is compelled to break a sacred vow and do the unthinkable: play pickleball.

  15. 15What Women Want

    What Women Want (2000)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident…

  16. 16The Back-Up Plan

    The Back-Up Plan (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe…

  17. 17Clouds

    Clouds (2020)

    ★ 8.2/10

    Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.

  18. 18Faith Like Potatoes

    Faith Like Potatoes (2006)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Frank Rautenbach leads a strong cast as Angus Buchan, a Zambian farmer of Scottish heritage, who leaves his farm in the midst of political unrest and racially charged land reclaims and travels south with his family to…

  19. 19A Walk to Remember

    A Walk to Remember (2002)

    ★ 7.7/10

    When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as…

  20. 2050 First Dates

    50 First Dates (2004)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and…

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