
10 Best Movies Like The Friend
If you loved The Friend, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

A Dog Year
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Friend for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends hi...

Paper Man
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Friend for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, al...

A Man Called Otto
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Friend for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that ...

The Hours
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Friend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories ...

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Friend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matc...

Gigi & Nate
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Friend for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....