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10 Best Movies Like New Best Friend

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

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#1
Closer

Closer

2004★ 6.8

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

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other....

#2
Next

Next

2007★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Best Friend for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interes...

#3
Best Men

Best Men

1997★ 5.2

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

Four tuxedo clad men show up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. ...

#4
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to New Best Friend for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...