Movies Like Needle & The Chronic

If you liked Needle & The Chronic (2026), a comedy and drama movie directed by Honey Drew Clanton, 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
Eighth Grade (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins…
2
3 Generations (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
3
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Unjustly accused of staging a spooky practical joke complete with ghosts, Daphne, Velma, Fred and Shaggy are suspended from Coolsville High. To clear their names, they team up to solve the supernatural mystery…and head…
4
The Station Agent (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedy
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
5
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
Scooby-Doo and the gang are on the case when a mysterious lake monster starts scaring the guests at a summer resort in Erie Point, where Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy have taken on seasonal jobs to pay for a barn they…
6
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Legend of Everfree (2016)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy
When Canterlot Highschool goes on a trip to Camp Everfree, they’re surprised to find a magical force is causing strange things to happen around camp. With the help of the Mane 6 and especially Sunset Shimmer, Twilight…
7
Miss You Already (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
8
Eleanor the Great (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
9
Buddies (1985)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his…
10
Grown Ups (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
11
Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
After 20 years in space, Rocko returns to a technologically advanced O-Town and makes it his mission to get his favorite show back on the air.
12
Being There (1979)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and drama
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from…
13
Kinky Boots (2005)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the…
14
Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10Also drama
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…
15
Regular Show: The Movie (2015)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy
After a high school lab experiment goes horribly wrong, Mordecai and Rigby must go back in time to battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe — and their friendship.
16
Sleepover (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Desperate to improve their social status, four best friends enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against the popular clique in their school.
17
Connie and Carla (2004)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy
After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... disguised as drag queens…
18
Where the Day Takes You (1992)
★ 6.1/10Also drama
King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J and junkie…
19
Afterlife of the Party (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.
20
My Girl (1991)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J…