Movies like Garden Party (2008)
The best movies like Garden Party (2008) are The Poker House (2008), The Babysitters (2008) and Down to the Bone (2004). If Garden Party hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBrokedown Palace (1999)6.4/10 from 421 votes
- NewestBridgend (2015)Released 2015
The Poker House (2008)
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Babysitters (2008)
Seventeen-year-old Shirley is a good student who works as a babysitter in order to make money for college. One night Michael, a father Shirley works for, confesses he's unhappy with married life. Shirley has a crush on Michael, and seizes this moment to kiss him. Michael is so happy he presents Shirley with a big tip, which gives her an idea. Shirley plans to make extra money by setting up her teenage friends with other unhappy fathers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDown to the Bone (2004)
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBook of Love (2004)
Living among fusty academics, an unusual young man gets between a high school history teacher and his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Melt with You (2011)
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGardens of the Night (2008)
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGeorgia (1995)
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBreathe In (2013)
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMolly Maxwell (2013)
At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing. In the midst of all this liberal pedagogy and budding talent, Molly Maxwell feels unexceptional, until she falls for her attractive English teacher, Ben.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPalo Alto (2014)
A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this2:37 (2006)
A contemporary, ensemble drama that tells the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37, a tragedy will occur affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTanner Hall (2011)
A manipulative childhood acquaintance worms her way into a teenager's circle of friends at an all-girls boarding school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMiddle of Nowhere (2008)
The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her younger sister's beauty pageant campaign.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisJaded (1998)
When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Brokedown Palace (1999)
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom (2011)
Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Normal (2007)
A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
L!fe Happens (2011)
A comedy centered on two best friends, Kim and Deena, who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhite Rabbit (2013)
A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWonderland (2003)
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNot Fade Away (2012)
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisVery Good Girls (2013)
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBridgend (2015)
Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the starting point for this mysterious social drama.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTart (2001)
A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon's Plum (2002)
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meets daily at their local diner hangout to discuss their latest misadventures and miserable lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Birds (2011)
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCafé (2011)
When tragedy strikes the community surrounding a cafe in West Philadelphia, the cafe's regulars come to realize how intertwined their lives truly are.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNobody Walks (2012)
A young woman's arrival sparks a surge of energy into a laid-back, artistic Los Angeles household, forcing the residents to confront their own fears and desires in an intricate dance of lust, denial and deception.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisReturn (2011)
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaroline and Jackie (2013)
A woman turns her sister's belated birthday celebration into an intervention, but as events unfold, it becomes unclear which sibling needs the most help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Garden Party?
The closest matches to Garden Party are The Poker House (2008), The Babysitters (2008) and Down to the Bone (2004). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Garden Party?
People who watched Garden Party most often go on to The Poker House (2008), The Babysitters (2008) and Down to the Bone (2004).
What is the highest-rated movie like Garden Party?
Brokedown Palace (1999), rated 6.4/10 by 421 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Garden Party?
Bridgend (2015) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Garden Party?
Yes: The Poker House (2008), The Babysitters (2008) and Down to the Bone (2004).
How are movies similar to Garden Party chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Garden Party, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.