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10 Best Movies Like Best Friends

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

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#1
Scorpio

Scorpio

1973★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Best Friends for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to...

#2
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Best Friends for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie indust...

#3
American Beauty

American Beauty

1999★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Best Friends for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Best Friends for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#5
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

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

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#6
Green Book

Green Book

2018★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Best Friends for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and ...