Movies like Four Friends (1981)
The best movies like Four Friends (1981) are Heaven Help Us (1985), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988) and Baby It's You (1983). If Four Friends hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGuess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)7.6/10 from 953 votes
- NewestHow to Please a Woman (2022)Released 2022
Heaven Help Us (1985)
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBaby It's You (1983)
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMore American Graffiti (1979)
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like this1969 (1988)
Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with adulthood as the Vietnam War rages. Feeling trapped in their small town, Scott battles with his conservative veteran father, Cliff, and Ralph deals with his desperately sexual mother, Ev. When tragic news arrives from overseas, the entire town, inspired by Ralph and Scott's antiwar efforts, reevaluates its attitude toward the war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMermaids (1990)
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShampoo (1975)
On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress Felicia Karpf, whose husband Lester is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Jackie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Flamingo Kid (1984)
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDogfight (1991)
In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Planning a massive blowout for their last night in San Francisco, Eddie, his buddies, and a number of other Marines set up a contest they call a "dogfight”.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Graffiti (1973)
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Wanderers (1979)
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNot Fade Away (2012)
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTin Men (1987)
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEndless Love (1981)
As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop, her father forbids the young couple from seeing each other for 30 days. Driven insane with frustration and desire, David attempts to reverse the decision, with catastrophic results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGuess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMetropolitan (1990)
A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInventing the Abbotts (1997)
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Wedding (1978)
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarcelona (1994)
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNo Small Affair (1984)
A 16-year-old aspiring photographer pursues a beautiful "older woman" of 22, a down-on-her-luck rock singer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarbon Copy (1981)
A middle-aged married wealthy white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a working-class black teen-age son who wants to be adopted into the almost-exclusively-white upper-middle-class community of San Marino, California.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisShag (1989)
Summer of 1963. Carson is getting married to her boyfriend so her friends Melaina, Pudge and Luanne take her to Myrtle Beach for one last irresponsible weekend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlaze (1989)
A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFandango (1985)
In 1971, five college buddies from the University of Texas embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPoison Ivy (1985)
Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humorous situations and romantic encounters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991)
Two African-Americans and two Puerto-Ricans (though one pretends to be Italian) go out on the town on a Friday night. They will be forced to get to know each other — and even worse, learn to like each other as friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
How to Please a Woman (2022)
When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisXX/XY (2002)
Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHe Said, She Said (1991)
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Four Friends?
The closest matches to Four Friends are Heaven Help Us (1985), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988) and Baby It's You (1983). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Four Friends?
People who watched Four Friends most often go on to Heaven Help Us (1985), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988) and Baby It's You (1983).
What is the highest-rated movie like Four Friends?
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), rated 7.6/10 by 953 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Four Friends?
How to Please a Woman (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Four Friends?
Yes: Heaven Help Us (1985), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988) and Baby It's You (1983).
How are movies similar to Four Friends chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Four Friends, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.