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10 Best Movies Like This Is the Year

If you loved This Is the Year, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Sure Thing

The Sure Thing

1985★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is the Year for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's ...

#2
The Giant Mechanical Man

The Giant Mechanical Man

2012★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is the Year for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him....

#3
Cherry

Cherry

2010★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is the Year 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...

#4
Greenberg

Greenberg

2010★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is the Year for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother. He's stranded there—since he doesn't drive—u...

#5
Jack Goes Boating

Jack Goes Boating

2010★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is the Year for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered on two working-class New York City couples....

#6
Delirious

Delirious

2007★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Is the Year for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Les, a small-time celebrity photographer desperate to make it big, befriends Toby, a homeless young man with no direction except a vague desire to become an actor. When by chance, ...

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