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Movies Like Igby Goes Down

If you liked Igby Goes Down (2002), a comedy and drama movie directed by Burr Steers, 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. 1The 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.

  2. 2Landline

    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.

  3. 3A Thousand and One

    A Thousand and One (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so…

  4. 4Parenthood

    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…

  5. 5Somewhere in Queens

    Somewhere in Queens (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Leo 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…

  6. 6The Tender Bar

    The Tender Bar (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined…

  7. 7Family Weekend

    Family Weekend (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

  8. 8Shiva Baby

    Shiva Baby (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also comedy and drama

    College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

  9. 9Grandma

    Grandma (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her…

  10. 10The Squid and the Whale

    The Squid and the Whale (2005)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and drama

    Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

  11. 11Hellion

    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…

  12. 12While We're Young

    While We're Young (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

  13. 13The Only Living Boy in New York

    The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.

  14. 14Diggers

    Diggers (2007)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    In 1976, four working-class friends come of age in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers, as were their fathers and their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to…

  15. 15Class

    Class (1983)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the…

  16. 16Wilson

    Wilson (2017)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

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

  17. 1710,000 Saints

    10,000 Saints (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the…

  18. 18American Pastoral

    American Pastoral (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

  19. 19Me and You and Everyone We Know

    Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and drama

    Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a…

  20. 20The Daytrippers

    The Daytrippers (1997)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama

    Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo, and Jo's boyfriend all…

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