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10 Best Movies Like The Actress

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

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#1
Better Start Running

Better Start Running

2018★ 5.9

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

An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo who want them dead or alive - pr...

#2
Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

1960★ 6.4

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

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful...

#3
SubUrbia

SubUrbia

1997★ 6.2

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

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults....

#4
Cosi

Cosi

1996★ 6.1

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

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overru...

#5
Author! Author!

Author! Author!

1982★ 5.9

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

A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belon...

#6
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

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

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

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