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Movies Like Fishbowl California

If you liked Fishbowl California (2018), a comedy and drama movie directed by Michael A. MacRae, 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. 1Young 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.

  2. 2Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

  3. 328 Days

    28 Days (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    After getting into a car accident while drunk on the day of her sister's wedding, Gwen Cummings is given a choice between prison or a rehab center. She chooses rehab, but is extremely resistant to taking part in any of…

  4. 4My 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.

  5. 5I'll See You in My Dreams

    I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    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…

  6. 6The Professor

    The Professor (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a…

  7. 7On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama

    On 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…

  8. 8Fathers and Daughters

    Fathers and Daughters (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

  9. 9CQ

    CQ (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi…

  10. 10Hooking Up

    Hooking Up (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the…

  11. 11A 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…

  12. 12Better 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.

  13. 13Mr. Morgan's Last Love

    Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedy

    A widowed professor living in Paris develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.

  14. 14The Clique

    The Clique (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.

  15. 15It Runs in the Family

    It Runs in the Family (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

  16. 16The Confirmation

    The Confirmation (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy

    A divorced father reconnects with his son when they track down a stolen toolbox over the course of a weekend.

  17. 17Welcome 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!

  18. 18The Pretty One

    The Pretty One (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    When her idolized twin sister Audrey dies in a car accident, Laurel decides to take her place. But, as she eases into the life she has always wanted, she must decide between continuing the lie or revealing herself.

  19. 19Breaking News in Yuba County

    Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    An 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…

  20. 20Kinds of Kindness

    Kinds of Kindness (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama

    A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman…

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