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10 Best Movies Like Dear Friend

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

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#1
The Play House

The Play House

1921★ 6.8

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

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....

#2
Phas Gaye Re Obama

Phas Gaye Re Obama

2010★ 7.2

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

Om, a debt-ridden NRI, wants to sell his ancestral property to pay his debts, but things turn awry when he is kidnapped by gangsters who believe him to be a rich target....

#3
Matchmaker Santa

Matchmaker Santa

2012★ 5.7

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

As a little girl, Melanie Hogan wished to find her own prince charming just like her parents found true love. Now an adult, Melanie is running her own bakery and dating a handsome...

#4
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972★ 7.9

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

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....

#5
Through the Olive Trees

Through the Olive Trees

1994★ 7.4

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

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman ...

#6
Rio Grande

Rio Grande

1950★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dear Friend for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of ...