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10 Best Movies Like The Goodbye Girl

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

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#1
Feel the Beat

Feel the Beat

2020★ 7.6

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

After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition....

#2
The Turning Point

The Turning Point

1977★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Goodbye Girl for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee...

#3
Author! Author!

Author! Author!

1982★ 5.9

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

A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belon...

#4
Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

2008★ 6.4

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

An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themse...

#5
High Strung Free Dance

High Strung Free Dance

2018★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Goodbye Girl for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innova...

#6
Tully

Tully

2018★ 6.8

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

Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes ch...

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