Movies like Third Time Lucky (1995)
The best movies like Third Time Lucky (1995) are About Schmidt (2002), The House of Tomorrow (2019) and My Mother's Wedding (2025). If Third Time Lucky 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 ratedSeven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)7.1/10 from 591 votes
- NewestTill' jail do us part (2026)Released 2026
About Schmidt (2002)
A recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe House of Tomorrow (2019)
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Mother's Wedding (2025)
Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady Windermere's Fan (1925)
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChloe and Theo (2015)
A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBest Man Down (2012)
A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFamily Weekend (2013)
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSubUrbia (1997)
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTreasure (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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Saphead (1920)
Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich and his son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter, and also nearly ruins the family business by selling off some stock at too low a price.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Good Half (2024)
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlmost Friends (2017)
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Soup (1992)
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Joneses (2010)
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993)
A grown-up Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm decide to get married.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wedding Year (2019)
A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDuplex (2003)
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Grande Bouffe (1973)
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDate Movie (2006)
Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man, his crush, his parents, and her father.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisConfetti (2006)
A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMen... (1985)
A successful, womanizing middle-aged man decides to move out of the house he shares with his wife after she confesses to having an affair. He looks for a new place to live and ends up moving into his wife's lover's apartment as a roommate. The husband begins to take an interest in the artistic work of the lover and coaches him for a big job interview. Little does he know that the job he's helping the lover to get is within his own company... A story about strange circumstances and the limits of friendship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Till' jail do us part (2026)
A couple of criminals challenge both love and the law to achieve the wedding of their dreams. Liza, determined to stay in her country despite financial hardships, convinces her boyfriend Joseph to go through with a heist that Las Vejigantes, the crime syndicate he works for, had explicitly abandoned. What starts as a simple art gallery theft, quickly escalates into an unexpected marriage proposal, a chaotic series of heists, police chases, and a media frenzy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Circus in the Village (1977)
Agron is a circus clown who is hassled by the circus animals. Shemshedin thinks they should send these animals away, and so many hilarious situations ensue.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
Ślub doskonały (2023)
A possessive mother, furious that her pregnant daughter’s lover is unacceptable, blackmails her unsuspecting subordinate into marrying the young woman sight unseen. On the wedding day, the groom wakes up hung over beside a stranger, and must scramble to hide his secret lover before the bride, her mother, and the best man arrive.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy
The New Shelter (1977)
Film set in a remote mountainous area where work and living conditions are harsh.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Proof (2005)
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhere the Truth Lies (2005)
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Third Time Lucky?
The closest matches to Third Time Lucky are About Schmidt (2002), The House of Tomorrow (2019) and My Mother's Wedding (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Third Time Lucky?
Start with About Schmidt (2002), the closest match to Third Time Lucky.
What is the highest-rated movie like Third Time Lucky?
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), rated 7.1/10 by 591 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Third Time Lucky?
Till' jail do us part (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Third Time Lucky chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Third Time Lucky, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.