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10 Best Movies Like David and Lisa

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

#1
My Father the Hero

My Father the Hero

1991★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to David and Lisa for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up...

#2
Breathless

Breathless

1983★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to David and Lisa for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange student. Stealing a car and accidentally killing a highway patrolman, he becomes the...

#3
Pursued

Pursued

1947★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to David and Lisa for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty...

#4
Las cerezas del exilio

Las cerezas del exilio

2023★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to David and Lisa for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This film reveals testimonies, reflections and memories from the experience of many Aragonese who, after the Republican defeat in the civil war, had to cross the Atlantic in search...

#5
Akira

Akira

1988★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to David and Lisa for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop....

#6
Life of Pi

Life of Pi

2012★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to David and Lisa for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the P...