Movies Like The Bear

If you liked The Bear (1938), a comedy and drama movie directed by Isidor Annensky, 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
Delirious (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama
Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, Toby becomes romantically involved…
2
Piter FM (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama
Masha, who works for a radio station, and Maxim, a street sweeper with an architectural degree, cross paths with each other when they are at an indecisive point in their lives.
3
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…
4
Numb (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel…
5
Enemies, a Love Story (1989)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
6
Breaking & Exiting (2018)
★ 6/10Also comedy and drama
Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, sending both of them into a darkly comedic journey of self…
7
Dark Eyes (1987)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
8
Cyrus (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before…
9
Camille (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.
10
Chéri (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
11
Not Like Dad (2021)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
The story of the journey of an adult hero to his Bata, a stern Russian peasant who became a father at the dawn of the nineties and raised his son the way all Soviet people did.
12
Edges of the Lord (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama
A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
13
A California Christmas (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance
With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas.
14
He Said, She Said (1991)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions…
15
Sidewalks of New York (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with scenes from the six characters' lives…
16
Why Did I Get Married Again? (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romance
The couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did we get married again?"
17
The Best You Can (2025)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romance
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside…
18
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and drama
A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.
19
Inadequate People (2010)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and romance
A 30-year-old man, Vitaly, moves to Moscow in search of inner peace after struggling with personal and psychological issues. As he settles into a seemingly ordinary life, he forms an unexpected bond with his younger…
20
(Untitled) (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy
A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art.