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10 Best Movies Like Chances Are

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

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#1
Sherlock Holmes Returns

Sherlock Holmes Returns

1993★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chances Are for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had utilized on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helpe...

#2
Man of the House

Man of the House

1995★ 5.4

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

Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to r...

#3
Asura

Asura

2012★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chances Are for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Abandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to survive in the wild. When he crosses paths with civilization, he must learn to tame t...

#4
Date with an Angel

Date with an Angel

1987★ 6.7

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

Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool...

#5
The Pick-up Artist

The Pick-up Artist

1987★ 5.6

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

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob....

#6
Annie

Annie

1999★ 6.4

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

Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find...