Movies Like Back for Good

If you liked Back for Good (2017), a drama and comedy movie directed by Bailey Donovan and Molly Donovan, 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
About Last Night... (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
2
Hello I Must Be Going (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedy
An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce.
3
Landline (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
4
Two Lovers (2008)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
5
Manhattan (1979)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and drama
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
6
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with…
7
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
8
Risky Business (1983)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedy
Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his…
9
Love Jones (1997)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out…
10
XX/XY (2002)
★ 6/10Also drama and comedy
Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.
11
People, Places, Things (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also romance and comedy
Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a classroom full of college students, all the while trying to navigate the rich complexities of new love…
12
Alfie (1966)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
13
(Untitled) (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and comedy
A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art.
14
Unfaithful (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
15
Entergalactic (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also romance and comedy
Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.
16
Blue Jay (2016)
★ 7/10Also drama and romance
Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past.
17
In the Land of Women (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedy
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live…
18
The Best You Can (2025)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romance
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside…
19
Anora (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedy
A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to…
20
Our Little Secret (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy
After discovering their significant others are siblings, two resentful exes must spend Christmas under one roof — while hiding their romantic history.