Movies like CALICO (2025)

Real Women Have Curves (2002)

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Clique (2008)

A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Chang Can Dunk (2023)

Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress his crush, Kristy, but to gain the respect of his high school peers too. But before he can rise up and truly throw one down, he'll have to reexamine everything he knows about himself, his friendships and his family.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Fitting In (2024)

A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Family Weekend (2013)

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

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

CQ (2001)

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Luca (2021)

Luca and his best friend Alberto experience an unforgettable summer on the Italian Riviera. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world just below the water’s surface.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy

Roll Bounce (2005)

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Chloe and Theo (2015)

A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Afterlife of the Party (2021)

A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Heavy Traffic (1973)

A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Twits (2025)

When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale (2017)

After tumbling into a magic storybook, Puss in Boots must fight, dance and romance his way through wild adventures as he searches for an escape.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997)

When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, they soon discover their new pals are about to be sent to a testing laboratory.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

The Little Vampire 3D (2017)

Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. Meanwhile Rudolph, a vampire of "similar" age (313!), encounters trouble when his clan is threatened by a dangerously obsessed hunter. Fate brings these two boys together, as Tony & Rudolph set off an action-packed battle to stop the villain, save Rudolph's family and learn the power of friendship.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

The Boxtrolls (2014)

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Sketch (2025)

When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin (2024)

Franklin is new to town and hoping to make friends, but his usual tactics don't work on the Peanuts gang. When the Soap Box Derby arrives, he's sure it's a chance to impress new pals and teams up with the only other unpartnered kid: Charlie Brown.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure (2013)

Tom And Jerry are among the last animals living in Storybook Town, a fairy tale-inspired theme park "where dreams come true, if you believe."

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz (2011)

After a deadly storm, Tom and Jerry find themselves stranded on an unknown island ruled by the evil Wizard of Oz. As they try to find their way back home, they worry for their master Dorothy's safety.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

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.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

To Fuck a Dolphin (2026)

A group of college students about to graduate have a party one night, in which they discuss their emotional, academic and romantic concerns, only to realize at the end of the evening the great emotional void that each one suffers.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & comedy

Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

One Last Shot (2026)

June and her friends give everything they've got to complete a movie for her college application project.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Persepolis (2007)

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Anche il riccio respira (TBA)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Dense on the Sea (2000)

Constant Wegman (Benja Bruijning), a 14 year old boy, raised by his grandmother (Carry Tefsen) in Zeedijk, Amsterdam. She is the owner of a cafe-hotel “De Rode Laars” (“The Red Boots”). The dreaming Constant runs away from this world of drunkards, gamblers, fighters by writing poems. His grandmother wants him to take control of the cafe. Then Constant secretly subscribes to a national poem writing competition: a new Vondel is born!

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Off the Road (2013)

Paul, fourteen, neglects his studies to spend all his time on his moped, to the consternation of his parents.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

The Great Phuket (2024)

Fourteen-year-old Li Xing lives in a district full of ruins and reconstruction. School brings him nothing but problems and his family is no help at all. One day, he finds an underground shelter where strange things happen...

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Butterfly Cloud (1977)

End of childhood, first love and misunderstandings that seem unsolvable. Comic story of sixteen years old boy who seems to be all against his dreams - and the families and friends, and the world from the supermarket where he works.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama