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10 Best Movies Like Defying Gravity

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

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#1
Cosi

Cosi

1996โ€ขโ˜… 6.1

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

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overru...

#2
The Giant Mechanical Man

The Giant Mechanical Man

2012โ€ขโ˜… 6.5

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

An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him....

#3
Juniper

Juniper

2021โ€ขโ˜… 6.5

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

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his lif...

#4
Landline

Landline

2017โ€ขโ˜… 6.1

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

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

#5
Fat Kid Rules The World

Fat Kid Rules The World

2012โ€ขโ˜… 6.7

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

A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band....

#6
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017โ€ขโ˜… 6.3

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

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

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