Movies like Dummy (2002)
The best movies like Dummy (2002) are Punch-Drunk Love (2002), The Good Girl (2002) and Numb (2007). If Dummy hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedStranger Than Fiction (2006)7.3/10 from 2,679 votes
- NewestIngenious (2009)Released 2009
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Good Girl (2002)
A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNumb (2007)
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink, but nothing works. The Golf Channel, lesbian exercise classes and a dizzying variety of pills get him through the day, but don't quite solve his problem. His writing partner tries everything to get him back to normal, but it's not until Hudson meets Sara that he finds a real motivation to get better and to actually start feeling again. From the writer of Deuce Bigalow, comes NUMB, a romantic comedy following an unusual man looking for strange love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisIngenious (2009)
A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrust (1990)
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMozart and the Whale (2005)
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShopgirl (2005)
Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous Ray, and her life takes a magical turn, but eventually she realizes that she must empower herself and make a choice between them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou Stupid Man (2002)
An actress dumps her boyfriend when she gets a television show. He finally gets over the breakup and falls in love again, just in time for his ex to return -- wanting him back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrust the Man (2005)
Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine. As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove Liza (2002)
Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlfie (2004)
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisKeep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrelude to a Kiss (1992)
A couple fall in love despite the girl's pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisJack & Sarah (1995)
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLars and the Real Girl (2007)
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNurse Betty (2000)
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSex and Death 101 (2007)
A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale who targets men guilty of sex crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDream for an Insomniac (1996)
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to L.A. with a friend sure that he will dump the girlfriend and follow her. She puts all her faith in fate and hopes for the best.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisStranger Than Fiction (2006)
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSideways (2004)
Two middle-aged men embark on a spiritual journey through Californian wine country. One is an unpublished novelist suffering from depression, and the other is only days away from walking down the aisle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStill Breathing (1997)
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo Faces of My Girlfriend (2007)
From failing at job interviews, to being a 30-year-old virgin, Gu Chang seriously can’t catch a break. But that all changes when he meets Ah Ni, a lovely and innocent woman who makes Gu Chang think his luck has finally turned for the better — until her split personality Ha Ni rudely emerges during their first kiss. Between Ah Ni's sweet nothings and Ha Ni's abusive high kicks, can Gu Chang handle two girlfriends at once?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Prime (2005)
A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoger Dodger (2002)
A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLulu on the Bridge (1998)
A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot. After discovering a mysterious package, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful aspiring actress, but their happiness is cut short by a series of strange, dreamlike events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDelirious (2007)
Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, Toby becomes romantically involved with K'Harma Leeds, the hottest pop star of the moment, Les grows jealous and plots revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnconditional Love (2002)
After her husband leaves her, a woman travels to London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox, she's adored all her life. There, she meets the lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTouch (1997)
At the discovery of his ability to work miracles, Juvenal becomes a media sensation, but now he's prone to those who want to exploit him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHeavy Petting (2007)
Charlie thinks he's met the perfect woman, but in order to be with her, he must first get past her dog. Just when he thinks all is lost, he realizes that he loves the dog too! Now he must do everything he can to keep them both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Dummy?
The closest matches to Dummy are Punch-Drunk Love (2002), The Good Girl (2002) and Numb (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Dummy?
People who watched Dummy most often go on to Punch-Drunk Love (2002), The Good Girl (2002) and Numb (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like Dummy?
Stranger Than Fiction (2006), rated 7.3/10 by 2,679 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Dummy?
Ingenious (2009) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Dummy?
Yes: Punch-Drunk Love (2002), The Good Girl (2002) and Numb (2007).
How are movies similar to Dummy chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Dummy, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.