Movies Like Goodbye Stranger
If you liked Goodbye Stranger (2023), a drama and comedy movie directed by Aaron Rookus, 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.
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School Dance (2014)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and musicHigh schooler Jason has found his dream girl—the gorgeous Anastacia. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t know he exists. If he can win a spot on the school’s hottest dance crew, Jason might have a shot. But before he…
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaAn all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
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Beats (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedySummer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. In pursuit of adventure and escape they…
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Hooking Up (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaBailey 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…
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The Clique (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaA 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.
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Somewhere in Queens (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaLeo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it…
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Family Weekend (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaA 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
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Suburbia (1984)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and musicWhen household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them…
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To Write Love on Her Arms (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and musicThe story follows 19-year-old Renee who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee’s life is that of a darker tale: she’s a young woman battling addiction…
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Crossroads (1986)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and musicA wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
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The Doors (1991)
★ 7.1/10Also music and dramaThe story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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Quadrophenia (1979)
★ 7/10Also drama and musicBased on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of…
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Patrick (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedyPatrick is the handyman on his father's naturist campsite. The remaining time he dedicates to his hobby, designing and creating wooden furniture. When Patrick loses his campsite hammer, his quest to retrieve it takes…
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Ex Drummer (2007)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaThree musicians form a band. But they're not just any musicians: each has a disability that makes them particularly unsuitable for their instrument. The guitarist is deaf, the singer is tone deaf, and the bassist has a…
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Band Aid (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaA couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.
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The Dirt (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and musicThe story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaAfter returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best…
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Heavy Traffic (1973)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaA white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an…
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In the Soup (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaAn aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
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