Movies Like The Guy in the Grave Next Door
If you liked The Guy in the Grave Next Door (2016), a drama and comedy movie directed by Agnès Obadia, 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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Mention particulière (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and comedyLaura, 21, is determined to earn her High school diploma, just like anyone else. Except Laura is a bit different. She has Down syndrome. As she faces her own difficulties, she must also deal with the doubts of her…
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Whatever It Takes (2026)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaRose and Jean have nothing in common. Rose is a force of nature who faces all her problems with a disarming joie de vivre. She lives with her 3 children upstairs in the family hotel that no longer belongs to her…
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Drumline: A New Beat (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaA girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band.
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Under the Stars of Paris (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedyChristine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in…
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Treasure (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedyA music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
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Macadam Stories (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedyImprobable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
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Bon Voyage, Marie (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaAn unexpected road trip brings a dysfunctional family together for one last journey with their elder, sparking moments of connection, joy, and reconciliation.
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A Bramble House Christmas (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and dramaWhile settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim…
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Bazaar (Murder in the Building) (2026)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaMisanthropic novelist François writes gripping crime stories – “Agatha Christie meets The Scarlet Pimpernel” – but outside of the swashbuckling imaginary world of his Marquis la Rose-novels, life is far from thrilling…
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaOn an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian…
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Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and dramaF. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.
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Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaAn overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes…
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Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and dramaTwo young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the…
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All Fired Up (1982)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaVictor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for…
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I’m Going Home (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedyThe comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his…
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Bye Bye Morons (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaWhen 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths…
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Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movieA college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
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Maybe More (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaAfter 25 years together, married life has taken its toll on Xavier and Sophie, so when Sophie decides to invite their neighbours over for dinner, Xavier is less than enthusiastic to say the least! He can’t stand how…
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Fool Circle (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedyTwo, very different, brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. But, when they arrive at the crematorium nobody is there, not even the corpse, except for Chloe who introduces herself as their sister.
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My Own Love Song (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.