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Movies Like A Single Life

If you liked A Single Life (1986), a movie directed by John Power, 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. 1Look Who's Talking

    Look Who's Talking (1989)

    ★ 6.3/10

    After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn baby is narrated through…

  2. 2Juno

    Juno (2007)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

  3. 3Babes

    Babes (2024)

    ★ 6/10

    After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

  4. 4Riding in Cars with Boys

    Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

    ★ 6.7/10

    In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

  5. 5Strange but True

    Strange but True (2019)

    ★ 6/10

    A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.

  6. 6Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…

  7. 7The Forge

    The Forge (2024)

    ★ 8.2/10

    19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man. At odds with his single mother Cynthia, Isaiah is given an ultimatum – to…

  8. 8Bed Rest

    Bed Rest (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10

    After struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers becomes pregnant and moves into a new home with her husband. She's ordered to mandatory bed rest, and begins seeing ghostly happenings throughout the house.

  9. 9The Switch

    The Switch (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally’s objections, decides it’s time to have a baby – even if it means doing it herself… with a little help from a charming sperm donor…

  10. 10Baby Mama

    Baby Mama (2008)

    ★ 6/10

    A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

  11. 11The Back-Up Plan

    The Back-Up Plan (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's artificially inseminated, she meets Stan, who seems to be just who she's been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe…

  12. 12The Rain People

    The Rain People (1969)

    ★ 6.6/10

    When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.

  13. 13Knocked Up

    Knocked Up (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A slacker and a career-driven woman accidentally conceive a child after a one-night stand. As they try to make the relationship work, they must navigate the challenges of parenthood and their differences in lifestyle…

  14. 14For Keeps

    For Keeps (1988)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an…

  15. 15A Nice Girl Like You

    A Nice Girl Like You (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend. In an effort to prove him wrong, Lucy creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her on a whirlwind and surprising journey…

  16. 16Safe House

    Safe House (2025)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Trapped in a high-security safe house after a terrorist attack in downtown Los Angeles, six government agents realize they must survive not just the enemy outside, but the potential traitor among them.

  17. 17What to Expect When You're Expecting

    What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)

    ★ 6/10

    Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries…

  18. 18Bridget Jones's Baby

    Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After breaking up, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single again, she decides to focus on her job and surround herself with old friends and new. For once…

  19. 19Vera Drake

    Vera Drake (2004)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

  20. 20Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

    Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly…

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