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10 Best Movies Like Patch Adams

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

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#1
What Dreams May Come

What Dreams May Come

1998★ 7.2

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

Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife Annie killed herself a...

#2
August Rush

August Rush

2007★ 7.4

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

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical...

#3
Jack

Jack

1996★ 6.3

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

Born with a rare condition that makes him age four times faster than normal, ten-year-old Jack Powell looks like a forty-year-old man. After years of homeschooling, he enters publi...

#4
Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man

1999★ 7.3

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

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a ro...

#5
Mrs. Doubtfire

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993★ 7.2

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

Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex...

#6
Finding Neverland

Finding Neverland

2004★ 7.3

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

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead ...