Movies like Around the Block (2013)
The best movies like Around the Block (2013) are Acute Misfortune (2018), The Chaperone (2019) and Breath (2017). If Around the Block hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Trials of Cate McCall (2013)6.4/10 from 321 votes
- NewestFriends and Strangers (2022)Released 2022
Acute Misfortune (2018)
The film adaptation of Erik Jensen's award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Chaperone (2019)
In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Breath (2017)
A pair of teenagers in Western Australia looking to escape the monotony of life in a small town take up surfing lessons from a guy named Sando.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSkin Deep (2014)
A heartwarming urban adventure following straight-laced Leah as she meets an unpredictable stranger and falls back in love … with life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Friends and Strangers (2022)
Friends and Strangers follows two middle class wanderers in a dryly comic exploration of inner Sydney.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Matching Jack (2010)
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Streamline (2021)
A prodigious 15-year-old swimmer with the world at his feet self-destructs after his father is released from prison. Inside of the pool, he lives a life of rigorous perfectionism and outside of it, his existence is lonely and hollow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
All About E (2015)
A beautiful sexy DJ is forced to run when she stumbles on a stash of cash. Can she keep the money, conquer her demons, AND get the girl?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like this52 Tuesdays (2014)
Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hearts and Bones (2019)
A shell-shocked photojournalist, haunted by what he has witnessed on assignment in Africa, returns home on the eve of becoming a father. When one of his photographs threatens to destroy a Sudanese refugee's new life, the two men are reunited by nightmare events from the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Breathe 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 thisAdrift in Manhattan (2007)
The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFiore (2016)
Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exists through secret letters and fleeting conversations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fringe Dwellers (1986)
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Met a Girl (2020)
An aspiring musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his long-suffering brother to chase after him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Tell (2017)
Based on true events that changed the law. This is the story of a survivor, Lyndal, a young woman sexually abused as an 11 year old while attending a prestigious school. Her courage to fight for justice is entrusted to a local lawyer determined to build a case and give Lyndal peace from her torment. With the help of his aspiring young associate and an enigmatic barrister, the lawyer and Lyndal find their way together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Beautiful Kate (2009)
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCharlie's Country (2013)
Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMental (2012)
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Turning (2013)
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
West of Sunshine (2018)
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
That Good Night (2017)
A moving and memorable family drama about a terminally ill writer who wants to be reconciled with his long-abandoned son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Indivisible (2016)
Daisy and Viola are siamese twin sisters on the verge of turning 18 living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and thanks to their performances at weddings, communions and baptisms, they get the livelihood for the whole family. Kept isolated from the rest of the world by their own father who just exploits them in order to make money, their life turns upside-down when one of them falls in love for the first time and they discover that they can be separated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlbatross (2011)
Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Year Without Sex (2009)
A tender story from Australia highlights the realistic ups and downs of an Australian family in the year following a parent's emergency medical procedure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hounddog (2008)
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Safety of Objects (2002)
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBastard Out of Carolina (1996)
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLucky Them (2013)
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Around the Block?
The closest matches to Around the Block are Acute Misfortune (2018), The Chaperone (2019) and Breath (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Around the Block?
People who watched Around the Block most often go on to Acute Misfortune (2018), The Chaperone (2019) and Breath (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Around the Block?
The Trials of Cate McCall (2013), rated 6.4/10 by 321 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Around the Block?
Friends and Strangers (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Around the Block?
Yes: Acute Misfortune (2018), The Chaperone (2019) and Breath (2017).
How are movies similar to Around the Block chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Around the Block, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.