Movies Like Georgia Rule

If you liked Georgia Rule (2007), a drama and comedy movie directed by Garry Marshall, 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
Grandma (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her…
2
A Patch of Blue (1965)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
3
The Burning Plain (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is…
4
The Mother (2003)
★ 6/10Also drama and romance
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
5
Parenthood (1989)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in…
6
Carolina (2003)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romance
A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy.
7
XX/XY (2002)
★ 6/10Also drama and comedy
Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.
8
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and…
9
Happiness (1998)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
10
My Fault: London (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance
18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an…
11
Juniper (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedy
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
12
Lolita (1962)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedy
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…
13
Stuck in Love (2013)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and comedy
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
14
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted…
15
According to Greta (2009)
★ 6/10Also drama and romance
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down…
16
Wicked Minds (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance
Holden returns home from college and is surprised to find his overpowering competitive father married to a much younger woman Lana. Holden quickly falls for the beauty and charisma of his step mother. A passionate…
17
Igby Goes Down (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young…
18
August: Osage County (2013)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother…
19
The Unforgiven (1960)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.
20
Waitress (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedy
A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.