Movies Like Suburban Girl

If you liked Suburban Girl (2007), a comedy and drama movie directed by Marc Klein, 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
Friends with Kids (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can…
2
Ode to Joy (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama
Charlie suffers from a serious disease that causes acute narcolepsy whenever he is happy. Although he develops a variety of techniques to deny himself pleasure and deal with his sleep issues, they’re put to the test…
3
In the Land of Women (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live…
4
Atonement (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
5
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
6
Voicemails for Isabelle (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also romance and comedy
A young woman's hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar.
7
Irreplaceable You (2018)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
A stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.
8
Love & Sex (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…
9
Hello, My Name Is Doris (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker.
10
Manhattan (1979)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
11
Someone Great (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance
An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one…
12
Barefoot (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding an improbable romance blooms, as…
13
Cyrus (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before…
14
The Best You Can (2025)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romance
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside…
15
The Lonely Guy (1984)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
16
How to Date Billy Walsh (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and comedy
Archie has been in love with his best friend Amelia for as long as he can remember. Just when he builds up the courage to declare his feelings, she falls head over heels for Billy Walsh, a new American transfer student.
17
American Fiction (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
18
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama
Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who has run away from home, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she…
19
About Last Night... (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
20
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and romance
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and…