Movies like Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
The best movies like Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) are Manhattan (1979), Terms of Endearment (1983) and The World According to Garp (1982). If Hannah and Her Sisters 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 ratedManhattan (1979)7.7/10 from 2,714 votes
- NewestA Christmas Tale (2008)Released 2008
Manhattan (1979)
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTerms of Endearment (1983)
Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each other deal with problems and find reasons to live a joyful life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe World According to Garp (1982)
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHusbands and Wives (1992)
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Parenthood (1989)
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Daytrippers (1997)
Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo, and Jo's boyfriend all pile into the station wagon and go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other and meet many interesting people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Savages (2007)
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwister (1989)
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is currently dating a children's TV evangelist. Also living at the farm is his layabout daughter and her precocious 8 year old daughter, his would-be artist son, the son's fiancée, and the black maid. Also thrown into the mix is the daughter's ex-husband, a ne-er-do-well who is seeking to get back in his ex-wife's good graces.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeconstructing Harry (1997)
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Squid and the Whale (2005)
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMoonstruck (1987)
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisCrimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murder; and a frustrated documentary filmmaker woos an attractive television producer while making a film about her insufferably self-centered boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDown and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThat's Life! (1986)
A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Heartburn (1986)
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBed and Board (1970)
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnnie Hall (1977)
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Big Chill (1983)
Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Tale (2008)
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPunchline (1988)
Lilah Krytsick is a mother and housewife who's always believed she could be a stand-up comedian. Steven Gold is an experienced stand-up seemingly on the cusp of success. When the two meet, they form an unlikely friendship, and Steven tries to help the untried Lilah develop her stage act. Despite the objections of her family and some very wobbly beginnings, Lilah improves, and soon she finds herself competing with Steven for a coveted television spot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNext Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOrdinary People (1980)
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBroadway Danny Rose (1984)
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAuthor! Author! (1982)
While facing the stress of his original play being produced on Broadway, playwright Ivan Travalian deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNothing in Common (1986)
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Accidental Tourist (1988)
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWonder Boys (2000)
Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hannah and Her Sisters?
The closest matches to Hannah and Her Sisters are Manhattan (1979), Terms of Endearment (1983) and The World According to Garp (1982). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hannah and Her Sisters?
People who watched Hannah and Her Sisters most often go on to Manhattan (1979), Terms of Endearment (1983) and The World According to Garp (1982).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hannah and Her Sisters?
Manhattan (1979), rated 7.7/10 by 2,714 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hannah and Her Sisters?
A Christmas Tale (2008) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Hannah and Her Sisters?
Yes: Manhattan (1979), Terms of Endearment (1983) and The World According to Garp (1982).
How are movies similar to Hannah and Her Sisters chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hannah and Her Sisters, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.