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10 Best Movies Like Drowning Lessons

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

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#1
Good Neighbor Sam

Good Neighbor Sam

1964★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Drowning Lessons for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion reli...

#2
Welcome to the Dollhouse

Welcome to the Dollhouse

1996★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Drowning Lessons for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school....

#3
27 Dresses

27 Dresses

2008★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Drowning Lessons for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores....

#4
Margot at the Wedding

Margot at the Wedding

2007★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Drowning Lessons for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Mal...

#5
Keeping Up with the Joneses

Keeping Up with the Joneses

2016★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Drowning Lessons for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that M...

#6
The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden

1993★ 6.7

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

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a b...

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