Movies Like The Goodbye Girl
If you liked The Goodbye Girl (1977), a comedy and drama movie directed by Herbert Ross, 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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Feel the Beat (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaAfter failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.
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Author! Author! (1982)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaWhile facing the stress of his original play being produced on Broadway, playwright Ivan Travalian deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
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High Strung Free Dance (2018)
★ 7.3/10Also romance and dramaZander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innovative pianist, Charlie, in New York’s…
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Tully (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaMarlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.
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Limelight (1952)
★ 7.9/10Also romance and dramaA fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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Remember Me (2010)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceStill reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as…
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Is This Thing On? (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaAs their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to…
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The Turning Point (1977)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceAs young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee's teenage daughter is invited to join…
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Five Dances (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceA gifted young dancer arrives in New York City and joins the downtown contemporary dance world. With talent to burn, he soon must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a…
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Footloose (1984)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceWhen teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaLoving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job…
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13: The Musical (2022)
★ 6/10Also drama and comedyAfter moving from New York City to Indiana, a 12 year old navigates his parents' divorce, his impending bar mitzvah and his new school's social circles.
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Annie (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaAnnie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a…
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Save the Last Dance (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceAfter the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her…
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaAn aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
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She's Funny That Way (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romanceOn the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.
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Frances Ha (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and dramaAn aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
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200 Cigarettes (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaIn 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
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Uptown Girls (2003)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and dramaMolly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny to Ray - the precocious, oft-ignored daughter of a music executive - she learns what…
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Stepmom (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceJackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women…