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10 Best Movies Like The Difference Between Us

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

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#1
Laggies

Laggies

2014★ 6.1

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

Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think abou...

#2
The Sun Is Also a Star

The Sun Is Also a Star

2019★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Difference Between Us for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s ...

#3
Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves

2002★ 6.1

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

In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee...

#4
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.1

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

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#5
Appropriate Behavior

Appropriate Behavior

2015★ 6.3

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

Shirin is struggling to become an ideal Persian daughter, politically correct bisexual and hip young Brooklynite but fails miserably in her attempt at all identities....

#6
Seven Minutes in Heaven

Seven Minutes in Heaven

1986★ 6.0

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

Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who has run away from home, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Case...

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