Movies like I Used to Go Here (2020)
The best movies like I Used to Go Here (2020) are Best Sellers (2021), Catching Feelings (2017) and Not Another Happy Ending (2013). If I Used to Go Here 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 Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)6.7/10 from 293 votes
- NewestThe Threesome (2025)Released 2025
Best Sellers (2021)
A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCatching Feelings (2017)
Set in a chic and middle class Johannesburg, a jaded academic and his journalist wife have their lives turned upside down when a celebrated and hedonistic older writer unexpectedly moves into their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Not Another Happy Ending (2013)
When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked, he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too happy and she can't write when she's happy. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realizes he's in love with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTumbledown (2016)
A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPeople, Places, Things (2015)
Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing being a parent to his young twin daughters and teaching a classroom full of college students, all the while trying to navigate the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town (2015)
In high school Cassie Cranston was slut-shamed out of the wholesome and repressed town of Beaver’s Ridge following a humiliating attempt at losing her virginity. Now, years later, a big city sex columnist, Cassie returns home to bury her mother and finds a chance for revenge when her prudish childhood nemesis insists she helps her old friends plan an orgy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLet Them All Talk (2020)
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Escort (2015)
Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoung Adult (2011)
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDean (2016)
A comedy about loss, grief, and the redemptive power of love. Dean is a NY illustrator who falls hard for an LA woman while trying to prevent his father from selling the family home in the wake of his mother's death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Late Bloomer (2016)
A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Weekend (2019)
A comedian goes away for the weekend with an ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Laggies (2014)
Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a few steps behind - while her friends check off milestones and celebrate their new grown-up status. When her high-school sweetheart proposes, Megan panics and- given an unexpected opportunity to escape for a week - hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year old Annika and Annika's world-weary single dad Craig.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sweet Life (2017)
Kenny is an ice cream vendor in Chicago with a crisp white uniform and an apathetic heart. When he encounters Lolita, a sharp-tongued but despondent insurance actuary, their heated conversation, natural spark and mutual hopelessness lead to an unusual proposal for a meet-cute: to travel to San Francisco, where they will jump off the Golden Gate Bridge together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Permission (2018)
Anna and Will, were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lands like a lead balloon, but the thought lingers until Anna proposes that they try opening their relationship – as a sexual experiment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMeet Bill (2007)
A mild-mannered bank executive mentors a teenage con artist and tries to make a career change as a doughnut merchant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Threesome (2025)
Connor has a threesome with his long-time crush Olivia and an alluring stranger named Jenny. It surprisingly serves as the spark to a full blown relationship with Olivia, until both women end up pregnant and all three are thrust into a difficult journey toward new realities that none of them could have expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBaby, Baby, Baby (2015)
The relationship between two mismatched people who try to move past their baggage to make their love work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisObvious Child (2014)
An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Blind Brother (2016)
Love for the same woman causes conflict between an over-achieving blind athlete and the brother who made him that way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStars Fell on Alabama (2021)
Successful Hollywood agent Bryce Dixon is returning to Alabama for the first time in 15 years for his high school reunion. When he learns he's the only one of his friends who isn't married with children, he convinces his client, starlet Madison Belle, to pretend to be his girlfriend. But he soon learns that success has different meanings, and romance may be closer than he thinks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Ana Maria in Novela Land (2015)
Ana Maria is having a bad day until she magically switches places with the main character of her favorite telenovela. As she struggles to escape from Novela Land, Ana Maria finally understands why her real life was such a mess.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Grace (2018)
A famous writer begins suffering from a crippling case of writer's block. His agent sends him a strange, belligerent woman to be his new assistant, hoping the change will inspire him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife Partners (2014)
A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove & Sex (2000)
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWalking and Talking (1996)
Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Picture (1989)
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnemies, a Love Story (1989)
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like I Used to Go Here?
The closest matches to I Used to Go Here are Best Sellers (2021), Catching Feelings (2017) and Not Another Happy Ending (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after I Used to Go Here?
People who watched I Used to Go Here most often go on to Best Sellers (2021), Catching Feelings (2017) and Not Another Happy Ending (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like I Used to Go Here?
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018), rated 6.7/10 by 293 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like I Used to Go Here?
The Threesome (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like I Used to Go Here?
Yes: Best Sellers (2021), Catching Feelings (2017) and Not Another Happy Ending (2013).
How are movies similar to I Used to Go Here chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside I Used to Go Here, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.