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Movies Like The Royal Tenenbaums

If you liked The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), a comedy and drama movie directed by Wes Anderson, 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. 1Magnolia

    Magnolia (1999)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will…

  2. 2Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

    Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.

  3. 3Ghostlight

    Ghostlight (2024)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror…

  4. 4Maps to the Stars

    Maps to the Stars (2014)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family chase celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Their fragile ecosystem is disrupted by the arrival…

  5. 5Smoke

    Smoke (1995)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate…

  6. 6The Road Within

    The Road Within (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama

    A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

  7. 7Goodbye June

    Goodbye June (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

  8. 8Hellion

    Hellion (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for…

  9. 9August: Osage County

    August: Osage County (2013)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother…

  10. 10Wildflower

    Wildflower (2023)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and drama

    The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.

  11. 11Parenthood

    Parenthood (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in…

  12. 12Ben Is Back

    Ben Is Back (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new…

  13. 13Fierce People

    Fierce People (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.

  14. 14Wilson

    Wilson (2017)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.

  15. 15'night, Mother

    'night, Mother (1986)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

  16. 16Igby Goes Down

    Igby Goes Down (2002)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young…

  17. 17Rudderless

    Rudderless (2014)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and comedy

    A grieving father in a downward spiral stumbles across a box of his recently deceased son's demo tapes and lyrics. Shocked by the discovery of this unknown talent, he forms a band in the hope of finding some catharsis.

  18. 18Friday

    Friday (1995)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama

    Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.

  19. 19The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

    The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama

    An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

  20. 20This Is Where I Leave You

    This Is Where I Leave You (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and comedy

    When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a…

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