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10 Best Movies Like Drowning Lessons

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

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#1
Good Neighbor Sam

Good Neighbor Sam

1964★ 6.5

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

To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion reli...

#2
Welcome to the Dollhouse

Welcome to the Dollhouse

1996★ 7.1

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

An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school....

#3
27 Dresses

27 Dresses

2008★ 6.5

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

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores....

#4
Margot at the Wedding

Margot at the Wedding

2007★ 5.8

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

Margot Zeller is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline's wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Mal...

#5
Keeping Up with the Joneses

Keeping Up with the Joneses

2016★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Drowning Lessons for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that M...

#6
Mystery Date

Mystery Date

1991★ 5.8

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

Tom McHugh quickly learns that his perfect big brother Craig isn't all he's cracked up to be while on a night on the town with the girl next door, during which Tom is harassed by u...

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