Movies Like A Friend of Dorothy
If you liked A Friend of Dorothy (2025), a comedy and drama movie directed by Lee Knight, 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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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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Alex Strangelove (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaAlex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A…
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About Alex (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaWhen 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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American Beauty (1999)
★ 8/10Also dramaLester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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Mammal (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAfter Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…
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Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedyRestless and unhappy, two couples get caught up in infidelity and deception. Barry is a sullen businessman married to Mary, a writer who is unsatisfied with their relationship. Mary begins an affair with Jerry, a smug…
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While We're Young (2015)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaAn uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
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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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Saltburn (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and comedyStruggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling…
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From Straight A's to XXX (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaWhen a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her…
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Fitting In (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaA teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life…
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Good Grief (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaWhen his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face.
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Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyAngela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In an attempt to escape her marriage so that she can be with a hunky layabout, she poisons her…
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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…
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Igby Goes Down (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaIgby 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…
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This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedyWhen 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…
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaAfter 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…
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Driver's Ed (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also comedyA group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
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Landline (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
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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.