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10 Best Movies Like There's Always Vanilla

If you loved There's Always Vanilla, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys

2000★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There's Always Vanilla for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even wors...

#2
The Baltimorons

The Baltimorons

2025★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There's Always Vanilla for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together....

#3
He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There's Always Vanilla for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing...

#4
Cosi

Cosi

1996★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There's Always Vanilla for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overru...

#5
The Best You Can

The Best You Can

2025★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There's Always Vanilla for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, ...

#6
Cherry

Cherry

2010★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to There's Always Vanilla for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned to college to straighten out h...

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