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10 Best Movies Like How to Avoid Everything

If you loved How to Avoid Everything, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Elder Son

The Elder Son

2006★ 5.9

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

A thief on the run convinces a single father that he is his long-lost son. Complications ensue when he falls in love with his newfound "sister"....

#2
The Best You Can

The Best You Can

2025★ 7.0

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

Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, ...

#3
XX/XY

XX/XY

2002★ 5.8

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

Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later....

#4
Mumford

Mumford

1999★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Avoid Everything for fans of Comedy & Romance & Drama. 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...

#5
A California Christmas

A California Christmas

2020★ 6.4

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

With his carefree lifestyle on the line, a wealthy charmer poses as a ranch hand to get a hardworking farmer to sell her family’s land before Christmas....

#6
Strictly Sexual

Strictly Sexual

2008★ 6.1

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

Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes....

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