Movies Like Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
If you liked Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012), a comedy and drama movie directed by Lorene Scafaria, 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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Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and dramaNatalie allows her classmate Jeff, who has run away from home, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she…
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Enemies, a Love Story (1989)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
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Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaZia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit…
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Irreplaceable You (2018)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaA stunning cancer diagnosis spurs Abbie to seek a future girlfriend for fiancé and childhood sweetheart Sam, who's clueless when it comes to dating.
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Am I OK? (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romanceLucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane…
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Someone Great (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceAn aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one…
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The Lobster (2015)
★ 7/10Also comedy and dramaIn a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off…
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The Big Picture (1989)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romanceHollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his…
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St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceReluctant to let go of college life, a close-knit team of seven friends--irresponsible saxophone player Billy, young Republican Alec, his girlfriend Leslie, struggling journalist Kevin, drama queen Jules, lovesick…
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceOver the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
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Numb (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaHudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel…
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Try Seventeen (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceTeenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa…
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Cyrus (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaWith John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcée finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Before…
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An Unmarried Woman (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceA 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.
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The Giant Mechanical Man (2012)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaAn offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
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Sex Drive (2008)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceA high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
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The World to Come (2021)
★ 7/10Also romance and dramaIn 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
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Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and dramaA high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaFour young women continue the journey toward adulthood that began with "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Now three years later, these lifelong friends embark on separate paths for their first year of college and…
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Girl on a Bicycle (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and romancePaolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day…