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10 Best Movies Like Sidetracked

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

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#1
Staring at Strangers

Staring at Strangers

2022★ 6.4

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

Carpenter Sergio runs away and hides in a closet after his boss fired him. When the closet arrives at its buyer's house, he decides to stay there, hiding in his new home living wit...

#2
Leningrad

Leningrad

2009★ 5.4

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

When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and mi...

#3
Barcelona Christmas Night

Barcelona Christmas Night

2015★ 6.3

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

Multiple love stories unfold in Barcelona during Christmas's Eve....

#4
Hablar

Hablar

2015★ 6.1

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

An anthology film with 20 stories on the subject of words, communication, linked to one another over a 400-metre stretch: from Madrid's Lavapiés Square to the Sala Mirador. A journ...

#5
The Unexpected Love

The Unexpected Love

2014★ 6.4

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

Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparent...

#6
La montaña rusa

La montaña rusa

2012★ 5.0

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

Three childhood friends meet again many years later, a woman and two men. A triangle. In one corner, sex, in another, love, and in the middle ... the protagonist in a mess. Romanti...