Movies Like The Common Courtesy
If you liked The Common Courtesy (2025), a drama movie directed by Chris Pocchia, 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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Ironweed (1987)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaAn alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaLongtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a…
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The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
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Magnolia (1999)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaOn one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will…
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Frailty (2002)
★ 7/10Also dramaA mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Here (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaAn odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
★ 8/10Also dramaFollowing an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
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Hellion (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaWhen motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for…
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Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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The Tree of Life (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a…
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Mikey and Nicky (1976)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaNick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long…
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Light Sleeper (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaJohn LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something…
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The Other Woman (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaEmilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless…
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Back to Black (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s…
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The Straight Story (1999)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaRetired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in…
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Small Things Like These (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaIn 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit…
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A Good Person (2023)
★ 7/10Also dramaAllison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident. The unlikely relationship she forms with her would-be father-in-law helps her live a life worth living.
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Strange Weather (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaYears after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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Coda (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA lost soul stumbles drunken through the city. In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things.