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Movies Like Pull The Plug

If you liked Pull The Plug (2023), a drama and comedy movie directed by Alex McLay, 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. 1Almost Friends

    Almost Friends (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become…

  2. 2Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play

    Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama

    In trouble with the local authorities, Mabel Simmons, notoriously known as Madea, is on the run from the law. With no place to turn, she moves in with her friend Bam who is recovering from surgery. Unbeknownst to Bam…

  3. 3TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  4. 4Looking for Eric

    Looking for Eric (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedy

    Middle-aged postman and football fan Eric Bishop struggles with his increasingly chaotic existence, but receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Éric Cantona.

  5. 5Family Weekend

    Family Weekend (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

  6. 6Sometimes Always Never

    Sometimes Always Never (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy

    Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart…

  7. 7Landline

    Landline (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

  8. 8Best Man Down

    Best Man Down (2012)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.

  9. 9Wildflower

    Wildflower (2023)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama

    The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.

  10. 10Hooking Up

    Hooking Up (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the…

  11. 11Game Night

    Game Night (2018)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy

    Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be…

  12. 12Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

    Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best…

  13. 13Treasure

    Treasure (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedy

    A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.

  14. 14The Party's Just Beginning

    The Party's Just Beginning (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and comedy

    In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. Surrounded by…

  15. 15Better Living Through Chemistry

    Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedy

    A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

  16. 16Juniper

    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.

  17. 17Creed III

    Creed III (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is…

  18. 18Somewhere in Queens

    Somewhere in Queens (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it…

  19. 19The Adults

    The Adults (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and comedy

    Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid…

  20. 20About Alex

    About Alex (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to…

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