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10 Best Movies Like The Good Guy

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

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#1
The Makeover

The Makeover

2013★ 5.5

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

This is an update of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" that changes the genders of the main characters. Hannah Higgins attempts to turn blue-collar Boston beer vendor Elliot Doolit...

#2
High School

High School

2010★ 5.7

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

A high school valedictorian who gets baked with the local stoner finds himself the subject of a drug test. The situation causes him to concoct an ambitious plan to get his entire g...

#3
The Good Heart

The Good Heart

2009★ 6.4

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

Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking hi...

#4
Staten Island

Staten Island

2009★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Good Guy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Sully is desperate to give his unborn son the chance he never had. Jasper wants to escape the mobsters that have infiltrated his life and business. Parmie, a local mob boss, dreams...

#5
Main Street

Main Street

2010★ 4.6

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

From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus...

#6
Assassination of a High School President

Assassination of a High School President

2008★ 5.7

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

After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief....