Movies Like Other People

If you liked Other People (2016), a comedy and drama movie directed by Chris Kelly, 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
Lilting (2014)
★ 7/10Also drama
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.
2
The Meddler (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter…
3
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…
4
Almost Christmas (2016)
★ 6/10Also comedy and drama
A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.
5
Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley's three adult children are too preoccupied with their own troubled…
6
The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
★ 7/10Also drama and comedy
In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
7
Clouds (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.
8
A Wife's Nightmare (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
9
The Healer (2017)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedy
The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.
10
Nomadland (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also drama
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
11
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.
12
Blue Heron (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also drama
A family of six's fresh start on 1990s Vancouver Island unravels as their youngest child, Sasha, witnesses the increasingly dangerous behavior of her older brother, Jeremy.
13
Hard Truths (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy
Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her…
14
The Farewell (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all…
15
Kajillionaire (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their…
16
The Boys Are Back (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
When the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As Joe rejects the counsel of his mother-in-law and…
17
Black or White (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
18
Prayers for Bobby (2009)
★ 8.1/10Also drama
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much…
19
Death at a Funeral (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
20
Orange County (2002)
★ 6/10Also comedy and drama
Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs into one complication after another…