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10 Best Movies Like Lunch Time

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

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#1
Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves

2002★ 6.1

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

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee...

#2
Restless

Restless

2011★ 6.5

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

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love....

#3
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977★ 5.8

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

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality....

#4
A Girl Like Her

A Girl Like Her

2015★ 7.1

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

Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of S...

#5
Teen Spirit

Teen Spirit

2011★ 5.9

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

Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies, is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, bu...

#6
Palm Trees and Power Lines

Palm Trees and Power Lines

2023★ 6.3

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

A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem....

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