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10 Best Movies Like The Perfect Afternoon

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

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#1
Somewhere in Queens

Somewhere in Queens

2023★ 6.3

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

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tea...

#2
Hooking Up

Hooking Up

2020★ 6.3

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

Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addi...

#3
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

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

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

#4
SubUrbia

SubUrbia

1997★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Perfect Afternoon 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....

#5
A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Perfect Afternoon 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...

#6
CQ

CQ

2001★ 5.9

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

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a n...

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