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10 Best Movies Like Magnolia

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

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#1
My Life Without Me

My Life Without Me

2003★ 6.1

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

A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness....

#2
This Is Where I Leave You

This Is Where I Leave You

2014★ 6.6

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

When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along w...

#3
Good One

Good One

2024★ 6.5

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

On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend....

#4
Laggies

Laggies

2014★ 6.1

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

Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think abou...

#5
The Royal Tenenbaums

The Royal Tenenbaums

2001★ 7.5

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

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of t...

#6
Flower

Flower

2017★ 6.3

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

Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a 17-year-old firecracker living with her single mom, Laurie, and her mom's new boyfriend, Bob, in L.A.'s San Fernando Valley. When Bob's...

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