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10 Best Movies Like Looking After Number One

If you loved Looking After Number One, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Flying Home

Flying Home

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking After Number One for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Colin, an ambitious young American businessman, has a deal with a potential client, a rich Arab sheikh who is a passionate pigeon fancier. The sheikh has tried several times to buy...

#2
Elegy

Elegy

2008★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking After Number One for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student w...

#3
A Perfect Enemy

A Perfect Enemy

2021★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking After Number One for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Famed architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Paris Airport by a chatty girl named Texel Textor who needs a ride. He obliges and after they part ways at the airpor...

#4
Penguin Bloom

Penguin Bloom

2021★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking After Number One for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling fami...

#5
Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons

1988★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking After Number One for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet t...

#6
The Big Year

The Big Year

2011★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Looking After Number One for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S.,...

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