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10 Best Movies Like The Next Best Thing

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

#1
Lassie

Lassie

1994★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

On their way to start a new life at a sheep farm in rural Virginia, the Turner family are halted by a wreck on the highway that has claimed the life of a truck driver. Spotting the...

#2
Swept Away

Swept Away

2002★ 4.8

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

Stranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue....

#3
Date and Switch

Date and Switch

2014★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two guys who make a pact to lose their virginity before prom find their friendship tested when one of them comes out of the closet....

#4
Surf Ninjas

Surf Ninjas

1993★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island. Part of their inheritance includes magically-induced martial arts prowess...

#5
Clay Pigeons

Clay Pigeons

1998★ 6.2

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

Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Cla...

#6
South Kensington

South Kensington

2001★ 5.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Next Best Thing for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A London aristocrat (Rupert Everett) rents out rooms in his posh estate to a pair of Italians who are wooing two wealthy British gals (Elle Macpherson, Judith Godrèche)....