Movies Like Being There

If you liked Being There (2017), a movie directed by Shady El-Hamus, 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
The Big Chill (1983)
★ 6.8/10
Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.
2
Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4/10
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
3
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
★ 6.6/10
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
4
Twinless (2025)
★ 7.3/10
Two men who lost their respective twin brothers develop a growing friendship after meeting in a support group. However, both harbor long-hidden secrets that threaten to tear them apart.
5
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
★ 6.7/10
When 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…
6
Don't Look Now (1973)
★ 6.9/10
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
7
Moving On (2023)
★ 5.9/10
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
8
Beaches (1988)
★ 6.7/10
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
9
Reservation Road (2007)
★ 6.5/10
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men react in unexpected ways as a reckoning looms in…
10
Our Friend (2019)
★ 7.2/10
After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
11
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
★ 6.2/10
An aging Hollywood star, Joe Scott, lives a life of narcissistic hedonism, observed by his laconic personal assistant, Ophelia. The death of his childhood best friend, Boots, takes our protagonist, and the movie, into…
12
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
★ 6.4/10
Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead…
13
Those People (2015)
★ 6.8/10
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
14
The Endless (2017)
★ 6.3/10
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
15
The Upside of Anger (2005)
★ 6.3/10
After her husband runs off with his secretary, Terry Wolfmeyer is left to fend for herself -- and her four daughters. As she hits rock bottom, Terry finds a friend and drinking buddy in next-door neighbor Denny, a…
16
I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)
★ 6.3/10
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected…
17
My Girl (1991)
★ 7.4/10
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…
18
The Invitation (2016)
★ 6.4/10
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that…
19
Shallow Grave (1994)
★ 7/10
When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.
20
A Man Called Otto (2022)
★ 7.7/10
When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.