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10 Best Movies Like L.A. Story

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

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#1
Switch

Switch

1991★ 5.9

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

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, ...

#2
High Anxiety

High Anxiety

1977★ 6.4

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

A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that th...

#3
Splitting Heirs

Splitting Heirs

1993★ 5.2

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

A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman w...

#4
Made

Made

2001★ 5.8

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

Two aspiring boxers and lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group....

#5
Days of Darkness

Days of Darkness

2007★ 6.4

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

Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job with...

#6
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

1968★ 7.5

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

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mic...