Movies like The House of God (1984)

In the Soup (1992)

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Don't Think Twice (2016)

An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Family Weekend (2013)

A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Good Half (2024)

Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

My Own Love Song (2010)

A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

SubUrbia (1997)

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

A Dog Year (2009)

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Landline (2017)

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Critical Care (1997)

Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million estate? Meanwhile, Werner must contend with his nutty supervisor, who insists that he only care for patients with full insurance. Can Werner sidestep the hospital's legal team and do what's best for the patient?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Savage House (2026)

Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It's not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

About Alex (2014)

When a group of old college friends reunite over a long weekend after one of them attempts suicide, old crushes and resentments shine light on their life decisions, and ultimately push friendships and relationships to the brink.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Hooking Up (2020)

Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Joneses (2010)

A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play (2017)

In trouble with the local authorities, Mabel Simmons, notoriously known as Madea, is on the run from the law. With no place to turn, she moves in with her friend Bam who is recovering from surgery. Unbeknownst to Bam however, Madea is only using the "concerned friend" gag as a way to hide out from the police.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

The Landlord (1970)

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Somewhere in Queens (2023)

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

Thunderstruck (2012)

After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy

The Pool Boys (2009)

A pool boy and a gardener turn an empty mansion into a home for women who belong to the world's oldest profession.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Going the Distance (2010)

Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep the romance alive with webcams and frequent-flyer miles. But just when it seems the lovers will soon be reunited, they each score a big break that could separate them for good.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Items Objects and Things (2025)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & comedy

Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)

Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of their friendship?

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & drama

Karniggels (1991)

After his training as a policeman, the young, shy Köppe is transferred to a northern German town. Unfortunately, in an area where fox and rabbit say goodnight, there is little for a lawman to do. So Köppe kills time with the search for mysterious cow murderers, flirting with two attractive women and befriending a likeable petty crook.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Article 99 (1992)

Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Mosquito: A Fistful of Bitcoins (2015)

Mosquito: A Fistful of Bitcoins

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Berlin am Meer (2007)

Tom and Malte are best friends; they make music together, DJ in Berlin clubs, dream of a career together, party until they drop, wait tables at a casting service and yet they are very different: Tom struggles with himself, his life and the future. When one day Mavie, Mitsch's "little" sister from Munich, moves into the Berlin flat share, Tom's emotional rollercoaster begins. Daredevil Malte, on the other hand, seems to have his luck in his pocket: Everything he touches succeeds. Tom sees no other way out than to escape: out of the city and into another life. His friends try to stop him, but even they know: Tom has to make this decision himself if he doesn't want to stand in the way of his happiness forever.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Happily N'Ever After (2007)

An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

High Art (1998)

When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama