Movies Like Can't Forget New Jersey

If you liked Can't Forget New Jersey (2019), a movie directed by Thomas Freeman Jr., 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
Sleep, My Love (1948)
★ 6.3/10
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
2
Riding Giants (2004)
★ 7.6/10
Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Directed by the skateboard guru Stacy Peralta.
3
Tony (2026)
★ 7.4/10
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
4
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
★ 6.6/10
Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.
5
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel (2026)
★ 7.3/10
Explore the formative years of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the profound influence of original bandmate Hillel Slovak.
6
Cameraperson (2016)
★ 6.7/10
As a visually radical memoir, CAMERAPERSON draws on the remarkable footage that filmmaker Kirsten Johnson has shot and reframes it in ways that illuminate moments and situations that have personally affected her. What…
7
Overboard (1987)
★ 6.9/10
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees…
8
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
★ 6.1/10
A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and…
9
Carlito's Way (1993)
★ 7.8/10
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.
10
Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)
★ 7.2/10
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
11
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
★ 8.1/10
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and…
12
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)
★ 7/10
An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. This unflinching look at Anthony Bourdain reverberates with his presence, in his own voice and in the way he indelibly…
13
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
★ 6.3/10
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in…
14
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
★ 7.8/10
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
15
50 First Dates (2004)
★ 6.9/10
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and…
16
Diggers (2007)
★ 6/10
In 1976, four working-class friends come of age in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers, as were their fathers and their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to…
17
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
★ 6.9/10
After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
18
Toast (2010)
★ 6.6/10
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman…
19
Teen Beach Movie (2013)
★ 6.9/10
Life's a beach for surfers Brady and McKenzie – until a rogue wave magically transports them inside the classic '60s beach party flick, "Wet Side Story," where a full-blown rivalry between bikers and surfers threatens…
20
Ocean with David Attenborough (2025)
★ 8.1/10
David Attenborough takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the ocean. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral…