Movies Like The Pursuit of Happiness
If you liked The Pursuit of Happiness (1971), a drama movie directed by Robert Mulligan, 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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Horns (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaIn the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
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The Crossing Guard (1995)
★ 6/10Also dramaUnable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
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Times Square (1980)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaWhen a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.
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Girl in the Bunker (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaWhen Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.
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Wanda (1970)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAfter a string of abusive relationships, Wanda abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal.
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Hesher (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
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Personal Effects (2009)
★ 6/10Also dramaWalter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the…
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Desperate Measures (1998)
★ 6/10Also dramaSan Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who…
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I'm Your Woman (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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The Lookout (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaChris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds…
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Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)
★ 6/10Also dramaMitch Buchannon, believed to have died in a boating accident survived and only has amnesia, he has been recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. His new fiancée, Allison Ford, resembles his old lover, Lt. Stephanie Holden…
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Thelma & Louise (1991)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaTaking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond…
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Out of the Blue (1981)
★ 7/10Also dramaA young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.
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The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaIn order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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Road to Paloma (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaWhile Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is…
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Higher Learning (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaAfrican-American student Malik is on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge, a "professional…
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21 Grams (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaPaul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together…
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Coogan's Bluff (1968)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaCoogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaSet in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the…