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10 Best Movies Like Permission

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

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#1
Your Friends & Neighbors

Your Friends & Neighbors

1998★ 5.8

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

Restless and unhappy, two couples get caught up in infidelity and deception. Barry is a sullen businessman married to Mary, a writer who is unsatisfied with their relationship. Mar...

#2
Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

1950★ 7.0

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

Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises...

#3
For Keeps

For Keeps

1988★ 6.5

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

Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pr...

#4
Take This Waltz

Take This Waltz

2011★ 6.4

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

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual at...

#5
Love & Sex

Love & Sex

2000★ 6.1

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

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of th...

#6
The Little Death

The Little Death

2014★ 6.7

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

A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies....

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