Movies like Quintessential Boredom (2023)
The best movies like Quintessential Boredom (2023) are You Should Have Left (2020), Our Friend (2019) and Mr. Church (2016). If Quintessential Boredom hooked you, these 28 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedMe Before You (2016)7.9/10 from 13,716 votes
- NewestOmaha (2025)Released 2025
You Should Have Left (2020)
In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Friend (2019)
After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMr. Church (2016)
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInterstate 60 (2002)
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBefore Midnight (2013)
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fugitive Kind (1960)
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTamara Drewe (2010)
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisStealing Beauty (1996)
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll of You (2025)
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCharlie & Boots (2009)
After a family tragedy, Charlie and his estranged son, Boots, try to put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northernmost tip of Australia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMe Before You (2016)
Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUnder the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Egyptian (1954)
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Greening of Whitney Brown (2011)
Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journey back to her old life, only to discover that her family is her home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisShaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Magnificent Seven (1960)
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI'll See You in My Dreams (2015)
A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSacramento (2025)
When free-spirited Rickey suddenly reappears in father-to-be Glenn’s life, the two former best friends embark on a spontaneous road trip from LA to Sacramento.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOmaha (2025)
A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an early morning in 2008. As they road trip across the American West, she discovers the truth about their seemingly spontaneous journey.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlfiya & Ahmed (2024)
It's the summer of 2010, 14-year-old Alfiya and her 17-year-old brother Ahmed are home alone, bored out of their minds, they decide to do things to keep themselves entertained.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A Date with a Work of Art (2024)
A troubled young man spends a night in town with an animated girl.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
No Loitering, Please (2024)
A lowly comic book shop owner discovers a mysterious young woman loitering in his shop, leading to an unlikely friendship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Unititled Hangout Movie (2025)
After a deal gone wrong, a timid first-year student forms an unlikely friendship with a stranger he meets on campus.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Loose Ends @ Big Forever with Richard Album & His Original Singles (2025)
Shot over two hot, humid days in late-June 2023 in a fly-on-the-wall style, Loose Ends is a lo-fi, verité hangout film about local bands in Chicago at a transitional moment in their lives, and the last Big Forever Fest in West Town. Featuring performances by Richard Album and Hard Femme.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Box Elder (2008)
Four best friends fart through their last years of college, hanging out, drinking and eating lots of sandwiches. Using break-ups and re-occurring scholastic failures to impose a quarter-life crisis, they take turns postponing responsibility, avoiding accountability, and looking for someone or something to substantiate their lives, all the while hedging their bets and mastering the art of treading water and getting away with it.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Hollow (2024)
A day in the life of a solitary old-timer, where routine collides with the surrealism of his home – a tree hollow on the outskirts of a village.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Club Strat (TBA)
The crew and friends of Atlanta skateshop Stratosphere skateboards' original skate video.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Quintessential Boredom?
The closest matches to Quintessential Boredom are You Should Have Left (2020), Our Friend (2019) and Mr. Church (2016). Below are 25 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Quintessential Boredom?
Start with You Should Have Left (2020), the closest match to Quintessential Boredom.
What is the highest-rated movie like Quintessential Boredom?
Me Before You (2016), rated 7.9/10 by 13,716 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Quintessential Boredom?
Omaha (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Quintessential Boredom?
Yes: You Should Have Left (2020), Our Friend (2019) and Mr. Church (2016).
How are movies similar to Quintessential Boredom chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Quintessential Boredom, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.