Movies like Dough (2015)
The best movies like Dough (2015) are Abe (2020), Nasty Baby (2015) and The Farewell (2019). If Dough hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedRental Family (2025)7.7/10 from 1,092 votes
- NewestRental Family (2025)Released 2025
Abe (2020)
A 12-year-old boy from Brooklyn tries to unite his half-Israeli and half-Palestinian family through cooking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNasty Baby (2015)
A gay couple enlists the help of their friend Polly to create a baby. Meanwhile, they must also contend with their homophobic neighbour who becomes a big nuisance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Farewell (2019)
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrigsby Bear (2017)
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPeace by Chocolate (2021)
After the bombing of his father's chocolate factory, a young Syrian refugee struggles to settle into his new Canadian small-town life, caught between following his dream and preserving his family's chocolate-making legacy. Based on the incredible true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Half Brothers (2020)
Mexican aviation exec Renato is shocked to learn that he has an American half-brother he never knew about: free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to the U.S.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Infidel (2010)
Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirlfriend's Day (2017)
When he's caught up in a deadly conspiracy, an unemployed greeting card writer must create the perfect card for a new holiday to save his skin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUncle Nick (2015)
A drunk uncle attempts to score with his flirtatious step-niece on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Treasure (2024)
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
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 thisWelcome to Hartmanns (2016)
The Hartmann family is turned upside down when mother Angelika decides to take in the refugee Diallo, against her husband's will. Amidst the typical chaos of our time, hope remains that the family finds its stability, confidence and peace again - just like the whole country.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArranged (2007)
ARRANGED centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Paddleton (2019)
An unlikely friendship between two neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Serious Man (2009)
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. He scrambles to find a semblance of meaning as he loses control of nearly every aspect of his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRental Family (2025)
An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFather & Sons (2019)
Joseph and his two sons, Joachim and Ivan, form a close-knit family but fail to see that each one is losing control of his life. Joachim is supposed to be studying psychiatry but spends most of his time daydreaming about his ex-girlfriend, Ivan cannot fit in at school despite being very smart, and Joseph has secretly quit his job as a doctor and is trying to become a writer. While there is plenty of affection at home, all three are also, clumsily, searching for love...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisMenashe (2017)
Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThat Time of Year (2018)
From Danish director and actor Paprika Steen comes a caustic comedy about the deep-rooted grievances that can rip families apart -- and the ties that bind them together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
How to Ruin the Holidays (2023)
When a struggling comedian reluctantly returns home for the holidays, not only must she deal with her eccentric family, but she ultimately faces a life-changing decision about her special-needs brother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Bag of Hammers (2011)
Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPapi Chulo (2019)
A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Last Right (2019)
Daniel Murphy is lumbered with a corpse that has the same last name as his, who dies on his flight from Boston to County Cork. Travelling back to Ireland to attend his mother’s funeral, Daniel also checks on his autistic brother. What follows is an unconventional road trip with his brother and the mortuary assistant as they take the coffin from Clonakilty to Rathlin Island.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBirthmarked (2018)
Two scientists raise three children contrarily to their genetic tendencies in order to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Dough?
The closest matches to Dough are Abe (2020), Nasty Baby (2015) and The Farewell (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Dough?
People who watched Dough most often go on to Abe (2020), Nasty Baby (2015) and The Farewell (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Dough?
Rental Family (2025), rated 7.7/10 by 1,092 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Dough?
Rental Family (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Dough?
Yes: Abe (2020), Nasty Baby (2015) and The Farewell (2019).
How are movies similar to Dough chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Dough, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.