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10 Best Movies Like Paula

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

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#1
Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

1991★ 7.0

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

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, N...

#2
To the Bone

To the Bone

2017★ 7.2

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

A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life....

#3
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#4
Eighth Grade

Eighth Grade

2018★ 7.2

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

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous...

#5
The Whale

The Whale

2022★ 7.8

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

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption....

#6
17 Again

17 Again

2009★ 6.3

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

On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years o...

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