Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Curly Sue

If you loved Curly Sue, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Curly Sue for fans of Comedy & Drama & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother....

#2
Falling for Christmas

Falling for Christmas

2022★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Curly Sue for fans of Comedy & Family & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An engaged, spoiled hotel heiress finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter after getting amnesia in a skiing accident....

#3
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

2011★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Curly Sue for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce....

#4
See Spot Run

See Spot Run

2001★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Curly Sue for fans of Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A drug sniffing agent canine is a target for an assassin boss so the FBI calls Witness Protection to send him somewhere else. Meanwhile a single Mom puts her 6 year old boy James i...

#5
A California Christmas

A California Christmas

2020★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Curly Sue for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas....

#6
Chang Can Dunk

Chang Can Dunk

2023★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Curly Sue for fans of Comedy & Drama & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress...

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