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10 Best Movies Like Breakaway

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

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#1
Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

1960★ 6.4

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

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful...

#2
The Lords of Flatbush

The Lords of Flatbush

1974★ 5.8

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

Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into stre...

#3
The Other Sister

The Other Sister

1999★ 6.3

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

A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college....

#4
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

2011★ 5.8

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

A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce....

#5
Coyote Ugly

Coyote Ugly

2000★ 6.3

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

Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and no...

#6
He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Breakaway 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...

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