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10 Best Movies Like Best Thing

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

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#1
Chasing Papi

Chasing Papi

2003★ 6.7

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

Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici,...

#2
Adopt a Highway

Adopt a Highway

2019★ 6.7

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

Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t...

#3
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#4
The Object of My Affection

The Object of My Affection

1998★ 5.8

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

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbear...

#5
Radioactive

Radioactive

2020★ 6.6

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

The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transfor...

#6
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

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