Movies like Act Naturally (2011)
The best movies like Act Naturally (2011) are Sisters (2015), Addicted to Fresno (2015) and Furlough (2018). If Act Naturally 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 ratedLittle Miss Sunshine (2006)7.7/10 from 8,196 votes
- NewestMother, Couch (2024)Released 2024
Sisters (2015)
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAddicted to Fresno (2015)
Two co-dependent sisters, a recovering sex addict and a lonely lesbian who work as hotel maids in Fresno, go to ludicrous lengths to cover up an accidental crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFurlough (2018)
In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSunshine Cleaning (2009)
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYour Sister's Sister (2011)
Iris invites her friend Jack to stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother. At their remote cabin, Jack's drunken encounter with Hannah, Iris' sister, kicks off a revealing stretch of days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Sister (2016)
After returning to her childhood home, young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth and metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlease Give (2010)
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMother, Couch (2024)
The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSupport the Girls (2018)
Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely - but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy, but what happens when reality pokes a bunch of holes in it?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Palace (2023)
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Think Twice (2016)
An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise (2013)
After surviving a plane crash a young conservative woman suffers a crisis of faith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDigging for Fire (2015)
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHonk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)
In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist Mega Church, attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisKelly & Cal (2014)
Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it's the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPetunia (2013)
Brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael try to unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them about life, as their family unit teeters on the edge of a collapse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Another Happy Day (2011)
A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMatterhorn (2013)
A lonely widower finds himself facing both his devout Calvinist village community and his own deepest regrets when he takes a deranged vagrant into his home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPhil (2019)
A depressed dentist in mid-life crisis tries to learn why one of his happiest patients suddenly commits suicide, and a dark comedic adventure ensues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
All Joking Aside (2020)
A young woman pursuing her dream of becoming a stand-up comic, forms an unlikely friendship with a jaded, former comedian after he heckles her off the stage at her first open mic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Suicide Kale (2016)
Jasmine and Penn, a new couple with an uncertain future, struggle through a lunch party after they stumble upon an anonymous suicide note in the home of the hosts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Braking for Whales (2019)
Star and Brandon, estranged brother and sister, are brought together after their mother's recent death and her absurd final request to dispose of her ashes in the body of a whale. With no choice or face losing their much-needed inheritance - they embark on a road trip to Texas where they not only encounter adventure, but also encounter each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Gimme the Loot (2012)
When their latest work is buffed by a rival crew, two determined graffiti writers embark on an elaborate plan to bomb the ultimate location: the New York Mets' Home Run Apple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Hologram for the King (2016)
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisOur Idiot Brother (2011)
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Descendants (2011)
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Miss Sunshine (2006)
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Hole in the Head (1959)
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Act Naturally?
The closest matches to Act Naturally are Sisters (2015), Addicted to Fresno (2015) and Furlough (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Act Naturally?
People who watched Act Naturally most often go on to Sisters (2015), Addicted to Fresno (2015) and Furlough (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Act Naturally?
Little Miss Sunshine (2006), rated 7.7/10 by 8,196 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Act Naturally?
Mother, Couch (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Act Naturally?
Yes: Sisters (2015), Addicted to Fresno (2015) and Furlough (2018).
How are movies similar to Act Naturally chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Act Naturally, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.