Movies like The Intervention (2016)
The best movies like The Intervention (2016) are Joshy (2016), Goat (2016) and Miss Stevens (2016). If The Intervention 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 ratedThe End of the Tour (2015)7.0/10 from 640 votes
- NewestPrivate Life (2018)Released 2018
Joshy (2016)
After his engagement ends badly, Josh decides to take advantage of his bachelor-party plans in Ojai, California, with the few friends still willing to join him. Focused on drugs and their own hangups, his self-absorbed friends refuse to confront the elephant in the room and ask Josh how he’s feeling. As welcome and unwelcome guests stop by, Josh will attempt to find some closure over this weekend with the guys.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGoat (2016)
Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMiss Stevens (2016)
Stuck at a crossroads in her personal life, it falls on high school English teacher Miss Stevens to chaperone three of her students — Billy, Margot and Sam — on a weekend trip to a drama competition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAs You Are (2016)
Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOther People (2016)
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLiterally, Right Before Aaron (2017)
Still reeling from his breakup with college sweetheart Allison, Adam's world is thrown into further chaos when he’s surprisingly invited to attend her upcoming wedding. Returning home for the festivities, Adam must confront unresolved feelings while trying to convince himself and everyone else that he is truly happy for her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristine (2016)
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfternoon Delight (2013)
Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom, frustrated with the responsibilities of her son's preschool, a lacklustre sex life and a career that's gone kaput. One night, intent on spicing up their marriage, she visits an LA strip club with her husband, where she meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBarry (2016)
A young Barack Obama forges his identity while dealing with race, divergent cultures and ordinary life as a New York City college student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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 thisThe A-List (2015)
Eric Schultz, the most popular student at Lake O'Dell High School, is coerced by his guidance counselor, Sylvia Martin, into fulfilling a list of her high school fantasies in order for him to graduate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Weepah Way For Now (2015)
Elle and Joy spend their last week before their next music tour wandering through the heart of Laurel Canyon, whiling away carefree afternoons with their friends as they plan for their own going away party.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Why Stop Now? (2012)
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisThe End of the Tour (2015)
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChuck (2017)
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBuddymoon (2016)
When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's previously planned honeymoon: a seven-day backpacking trip through the breathtaking mountains of Oregon. Their adventures are bookended with passages from William Clark's diary describing his friendship with Meriwether Lewis and the terrain they crossed during their expedition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLast Weekend (2014)
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Tallulah (2016)
Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThat Burning Feeling (2014)
Venereal disease forces a confirmed bachelor to take stock of his history of one night stands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Private Life (2018)
Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLovesong (2017)
Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy’s wedding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Swingers Weekend (2018)
Seemingly perfect couple Lisa and Dan plan a steamy swingers weekend, but things go south when a third couple drops in unexpectedly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Free World (2016)
Following his release from a brutal stretch in prison for crimes he didn't commit, Mo is struggling to adapt to life on the outside. When his world collides with Doris, a mysterious woman with a violent past, he decides to risk his newfound freedom to keep her in his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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 thisAdult Beginners (2014)
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister, brother-in-law and three year-old nephew in the suburbs — only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up — but not without some bad behavior first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Family Fang (2016)
A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their world famous parents who have disappeared.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBurning Sands (2017)
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisJust Like a Woman (2013)
Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a darker secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Intervention?
The closest matches to The Intervention are Joshy (2016), Goat (2016) and Miss Stevens (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Intervention?
People who watched The Intervention most often go on to Joshy (2016), Goat (2016) and Miss Stevens (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Intervention?
The End of the Tour (2015), rated 7.0/10 by 640 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Intervention?
Private Life (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Intervention?
Yes: Joshy (2016), Goat (2016) and Miss Stevens (2016).
How are movies similar to The Intervention chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Intervention, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.