Movies like Patrick
If Patrick hooked you with its drama and comedy, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
The Misfortunates (2009)
13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Marathon (2012)
Four out-of-shape car mechanics decide to participate in the Rotterdam marathon. If they reach the finish in time, they will be able to pay off their debt — if they don't, they will lose their garage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWild Mussels (2000)
A group of friends in their early twenties re-consider their boring lives in a sleepy fishing village in the Netherlands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Waterboys (2016)
Both newly single, a Dutch crime author and his cellist son attempt to rekindle their feeble bond as the latter joins the former on a publicity trip to Scotland.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Only Decent People (2012)
David Samuels is from an intellectual Jewish family from the posh Amsterdam Old South. He is also a man on a mission: to find a fabulous ghetto-queen with great tits and thick buttocks. His parents and friends declare him mad, but David continues unabated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Downside Up (2016)
The world is populated only by people with Down syndrome. One day, a boy is born who is different. He is not ‘normal’, because he looks a little bit different and behaves a little bit unusual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Come As You Are (2011)
Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the fact that the first guy is blind, the second is in a wheelchair and the third is completely paralyzed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbel (1986)
Abel has never left home (literally). After failing with doctors and psychiatrists, Abel's father Victor brings home Christine, a friend, in an attempt to teach Abel basic social skills. But Victor's wife Duif accuses him of having an affair, and in the ensuing row Abel is thrown out into the street. But help is at hand when he runs into kind-hearted stripper Zus - whose show Victor is obsessed with…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife as It Should Be (2020)
Immediately after the birth of their first child, Iris' friend Pieter confesses that he never wanted this child, has been having an affair for a year and will soon be leaving for Africa with his new love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Simon (2004)
A mild-mannered gay dentist and a womanizing bar owner rekindle their unlikely friendship when, upon meeting by chance after a decade apart, the latter turns out to be severely ill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTricked (2012)
During his 50th birthday party thrown by his wife, Remco's life takes a turn for the worse. His business partners are scheming behind his back to sell him and his former mistress shows up pregnant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrince (2015)
A troubled teenager attempts to conquer the girl he's in love with, who seems out of reach. He's lured into criminal activities and becomes alienated from family and friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Kiss Me Softly (2012)
17 year old Jasper lives in a very grey, small town. In his family, he cannot be himself. Jasper's dad is a singer, named Lukkie Luk. All the attention in the family goes to his career. Jasper searches a way to handle this and is faced with the typical questions in the life of an adolescent. Questions that will not be answered when he stays in his own routine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Belgica (2016)
The story of two brothers who, even though they have absolutely nothing in common, open a bar together that quickly becomes a regular hangout for nighthawks. Despite the success, they must soon face up to the difficulties inherent in running a family business. Their brotherhood turns into rivalry, through no fault of their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOffline (2012)
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
No. 10 (2021)
A stubborn stage actor navigates single fatherhood, a strenuous theatre project, an adulterous love affair, and the confounding dreams awakened by a puzzling street encounter with a mysterious stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
The Ardennes (2015)
A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Queen Karo (2009)
Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused because of the internal conflicts that start to divide the group. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Marriage Escape (2020)
Jan has been married to Gedda for 35 years. Gedda loves Jan so much that she smothers him: before he can grab a glass from the table, she has already given him one. She picks out his clothing, his friends, his vacations and all their other activities. In an attempt to get some space Jan concocts a strange plan that literally transforms his marriage into a locked ward. Their daughter finds herself in a similar predicament with her exacting and jealous boyfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGrimm (2003)
One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Shoot (2018)
In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, Albert, has the well-nigh impossible task of giving David a new perspective on life, a future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWinter in Wartime (2008)
During World War II in the freezing winter of 1944-45 the western Netherlands are in the grip of a famine. Many people move east to provide for their families. Fourteen year old Michiel can't wait to join the Dutch resistance, to the dismay of his father, who, as mayor, works to prevent escalations in the village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisS&M Judge (2009)
In 1997, the Belgian public was in shock when judge Koen A. was convicted for the S&M relationship with his wife. Although their life was destroyed by the verdict, Koen and his wife Magda remain together today. The film is a story about dark sexuality and true love, told from the lover's unique point of view
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Paradise Suite (2015)
The lives of six people, who seem to have nothing more in common than their faraway homelands, become inextricably linked in Amsterdam, the city they have chosen as their new home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bros Before Hos (2013)
Because of a bad marriage of their parents, two brothers Jules and Max made a pact never to get into a relationship with a woman. Therefore, they live a party-life in which they sleep with a different girl every day. However this changes when Jules starts to date Anna and Max falls in love with her. Can their bromance overcome this love triangle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlodder (1986)
A low-class antisocial family ends up in a rich upper-class neighborhood and causes all sorts of trouble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpetters (1980)
Amateur dirt-bikers Rien and Hans–and their mechanic Eef–each fall in love with Fientje, a young woman who, with her brother Jaap, works a concession stand at the races. Everyone seeks a better life: Fientje wants out of the business and away from Jaap; and Rien and Hans aim to make their marks as pro racers, like their hero, Gerrit Witkamp.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarina (2013)
Italy, 1948. Young Rocco is growing up in Calabria, until one day his father Salvatore decides to leave to Belgium, where he strives to earn a lot of money by working in coal mines. Very soon he sends for his family. Rocco becomes a migrant overnight, with all the consequences this entails. Rocco wants to be like other youngsters, become someone and have a purpose in life. Against his father’s wish and better judgment he seeks an escape through music and love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLoft (2008)
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNew Kids Nitro (2011)
Gerrie, Richard, Rikkert, Robbie and Barry from Maaskantje are in a big fight with the village of Schijndel. When a zombie kills someone from Brabant, things get out of hand.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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The closest matches to Patrick are The Misfortunates, The Marathon, Wild Mussels.
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