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Movies Like A Friend of the Deceased

If you liked A Friend of the Deceased (1997), a drama and comedy movie directed by Viacheslav Kryshtofovych and Leonid Boyko, 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. 1Revolutionary Road

    Revolutionary Road (2008)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

  2. 2The Roses

    The Roses (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while…

  3. 3The Man from Elysian Fields

    The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

  4. 4Which Brings Me to You

    Which Brings Me to You (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of…

  5. 5Not Like Dad

    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.

  6. 6In Secret

    In Secret (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching…

  7. 7You Hurt My Feelings

    You Hurt My Feelings (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy

    A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

  8. 8Chéri

    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.

  9. 9Love and Pigeons

    Love and Pigeons (1984)

    ★ 7.6/10Also comedy and romance

    In a remote Siberian village, a work injury sends Vasily Kuziakin on a paid trip to a Black Sea resort as compensation. There, he meets femme fatale Raisa Zaharovna and decides to stay with her. Such is the beginning…

  10. 10Father of the Bride

    Father of the Bride (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.

  11. 11Dirty Sexy Saint

    Dirty Sexy Saint (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama

    Clay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn't do…

  12. 12Blind

    Blind (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

  13. 13Lolita

    Lolita (1962)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedy

    Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…

  14. 14Persuasion

    Persuasion (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth - the dashing one she once sent away - crashes back into her life, Anne…

  15. 15Piter FM

    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.

  16. 16How to Please a Woman

    How to Please a Woman (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedy

    When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

  17. 17You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    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…

  18. 18The Good Girl

    The Good Girl (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and comedy

    A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

  19. 19Anna Karenina

    Anna Karenina (1997)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high…

  20. 20Love in Taipei

    Love in Taipei (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance and comedy

    A young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.

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