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10 Best Movies Like What Happens Next

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

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#1
My Fake Boyfriend

My Fake Boyfriend

2022★ 5.9

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

A young man in a tricky situation follows the advice of his unconventional best friend and uses social media to create a fake boyfriend to keep his awful ex-lover out of his life. ...

#2
Benjamin

Benjamin

2019★ 6.1

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

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces ...

#3
My Policeman

My Policeman

2022★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What Happens Next for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship ...

#4
Sidewalks of New York

Sidewalks of New York

2001★ 6.0

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

The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with sc...

#5
A California Christmas: City Lights

A California Christmas: City Lights

2021★ 6.6

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

Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph ba...

#6
Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012★ 5.8

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

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved br...

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