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10 Best Movies Like Mr. Roberts

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

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#1
Smart People

Smart People

2008★ 5.8

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

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and famil...

#2
Splendor

Splendor

1999★ 6.1

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

Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy ...

#3
Cluny Brown

Cluny Brown

1946★ 7.2

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

Amateur plumber Cluny Brown gets sent off by her uncle to work as a servant at an English country estate....

#4
Matilda

Matilda

1996★ 7.2

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

Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has...

#5
Mister Roberts

Mister Roberts

1955★ 7.1

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

Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton....

#6
Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey

1988★ 5.9

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

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find h...

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