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10 Best Movies Like California Dreaming

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

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#1
Greenberg

Greenberg

2010★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to California Dreaming 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...

#2
A California Christmas: City Lights

A California Christmas: City Lights

2021★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to California Dreaming for fans of Comedy & Drama & 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...

#3
Danny Deckchair

Danny Deckchair

2003★ 6.1

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

Based on a true story, the tale of a cement truck driver named Danny, whose long awaited vacation is cancelled thanks to his scheming girlfriend, Trudy. Danny escapes his grim life...

#4
The Last Summer

The Last Summer

2019★ 6.0

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

Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college....

#5
Mumford

Mumford

1999★ 6.5

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

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quir...

#6
He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to California Dreaming 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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