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10 Best Movies Like The Great Pumpkin

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

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#1
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#2
It Runs in the Family

It Runs in the Family

2003★ 6.0

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

This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile...

#3
A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Pumpkin 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...

#4
We Can Do That

We Can Do That

2008★ 7.2

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

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in...

#5
SubUrbia

SubUrbia

1997★ 6.2

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

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults....

#6
Ugly, Dirty and Bad

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

1976★ 7.5

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

Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a c...

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