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Movies Like The Birthday Trip

If you liked The Birthday Trip (1990), a comedy and drama movie directed by Lone Scherfig, 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. 1SubUrbia

    SubUrbia (1997)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

  2. 2Don't Think Twice

    Don't Think Twice (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.

  3. 3A Dog Year

    A Dog Year (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined…

  4. 4Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

    Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

  5. 5My Own Love Song

    My Own Love Song (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

  6. 6TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  7. 7Thunderstruck

    Thunderstruck (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy

    After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.

  8. 8The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  9. 9Gotcha!

    Gotcha! (1985)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy

    A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.

  10. 10Young Adult

    Young Adult (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

  11. 11The Trip to Italy

    The Trip to Italy (2014)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy.

  12. 12The Caveman's Valentine

    The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…

  13. 13Chloe and Theo

    Chloe and Theo (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We…

  14. 14Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

    Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

  15. 15Better Living Through Chemistry

    Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedy

    A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

  16. 16Moxie

    Moxie (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    Inspired by her mom's rebellious past and a confident new friend, a shy 16-year-old publishes an anonymous zine calling out sexism at her school.

  17. 17The Happiest Millionaire

    The Happiest Millionaire (1967)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the unusual antics of her…

  18. 18Woman Times Seven

    Woman Times Seven (1967)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress…

  19. 19Airborne

    Airborne (1993)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy

    Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to…

  20. 20Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

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