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10 Best Movies Like Lonely Planet

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

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#1
Not Another Happy Ending

Not Another Happy Ending

2013★ 5.8

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

When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked, he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too happy and ...

#2
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lonely Planet for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

#3
Shirley

Shirley

2020★ 6.1

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

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple....

#4
Hideous Kinky

Hideous Kinky

1999★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lonely Planet for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea....

#5
She Came to Me

She Came to Me

2023★ 6.1

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

Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapist-turned-wife Patricia sugges...

#6
Mother

Mother

1996★ 6.8

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

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems....

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