Movies like On the Count of Three (2022)
The best movies like On the Count of Three (2022) are Just Before I Go (2015), Demolition (2016) and Ghostlight (2024). If On the Count of Three hooked you with its comedy and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLittle Miss Sunshine (2006)7.7/10 from 8,203 votes
- NewestRATS! (2025)Released 2025
Just Before I Go (2015)
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemolition (2016)
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhostlight (2024)
When melancholic construction worker Dan finds himself drifting from his wife and daughter, he discovers community and purpose in a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet. As the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life, he and his family are forced to confront a personal loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this50/50 (2011)
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Way Way Back (2013)
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTrust (1990)
After being thrown away from home, pregnant high school dropout Maria meets Matthew, a highly educated and extremely moody electronics repairman. The two begin an unusual romance built on their sense of mutual admiration and trust.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEternal Beauty (2020)
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lifeguard (2013)
Leigh, feeling unfulfilled, quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She takes a job as a lifeguard, regresses into adolescent behavior, and begins a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager, leading to consequences for everyone involved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGarden State (2004)
Andrew returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral, a journey that reconnects him with old friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam—a girl also struggling with various maladies—opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional connections, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWorld's Greatest Dad (2009)
In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMe and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Miss Sunshine (2006)
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisNotice to Quit (2024)
Andy Singer, a struggling New York City realtor, finds his world crashing down around him when his estranged 10-year-old daughter, Anna, shows up unannounced on his doorstep in the middle of his eviction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Harold and Maude (1971)
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAs Good as It Gets (1997)
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRushmore (1998)
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRATS! (2025)
In a surreal small‑town version of 2007 Texas, a young graffiti artist lands in jail and is coerced into spying on his cousin—suspected by an unhinged cop of dealing nuclear weapons. What follows is a frenetic, gross‑humored ride through conspiracy, over-the-top characters, and chaotic counterculture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Funny People (2009)
Famous and wealthy funnyman George Simmons doesn't give much thought to how he treats people until a doctor delivers stunning health news, forcing George to reevaluate his priorities with a little help from aspiring stand-up comic Ira.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisLars and the Real Girl (2007)
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe King of Staten Island (2020)
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this10 Years (2012)
A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets (2021)
In the emotionally charged, wild and humorous world of sixteen year old James Whitman, his struggle to overcome anxiety and depression involve seeking advice from Dr. Bird - a giant imaginary pigeon therapist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Last Thing... (2005)
Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan, with the help of his best friends, goes to New York to fulfill his dream.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDefendor (2009)
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like On the Count of Three?
The closest matches to On the Count of Three are Just Before I Go (2015), Demolition (2016) and Ghostlight (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after On the Count of Three?
People who watched On the Count of Three most often go on to Just Before I Go (2015), Demolition (2016) and Ghostlight (2024).
What is the highest-rated movie like On the Count of Three?
Little Miss Sunshine (2006), rated 7.7/10 by 8,203 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like On the Count of Three?
RATS! (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like On the Count of Three?
Yes: Just Before I Go (2015), Demolition (2016) and Ghostlight (2024).
How are movies similar to On the Count of Three chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside On the Count of Three, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.