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10 Best Movies Like How to Be Louise

If you loved How to Be Louise, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Lucky Them

Lucky Them

2013★ 6.0

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

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-st...

#2
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

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

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#3
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

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

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#4
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

2013★ 7.0

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

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness....

#5
Sky

Sky

2015★ 6.2

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

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband....

#6
Lions Love

Lions Love

1969★ 5.8

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

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood....

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