Movies Like Last Summer in the Hamptons
If you liked Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995), a comedy and drama movie directed by Henry Jaglom, 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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Soul Food (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaTraditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's turn sour when sisters Teri, Bird and Maxine start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemble comedy. When tragedy strikes, it's up to grandson Ahmad to pull…
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Ghostlight (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaWhen melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror…
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Rushmore (1998)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaWhen a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates…
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American Fiction (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaA novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
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The Adults (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedyEric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid…
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Marriage Story (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
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Wildflower (2023)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaThe story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
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Madeline's Madeline (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaMadeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their…
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50/50 (2011)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaInspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
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Diggers (2007)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaIn 1976, four working-class friends come of age in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers, as were their fathers and their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to…
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Parenthood (1989)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaThe story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in…
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaAn estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
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Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaSingle dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a…
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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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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and comedyA fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career…
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The Wrecking Crew (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also comedyEstranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart.
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The Humans (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaErik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night…
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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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The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and dramaTwo high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
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Somewhere in Queens (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaLeo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it…