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10 Best Movies Like The Graduate

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

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#1
Class

Class

1983★ 5.9

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

Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is embo...

#2
The Mother

The Mother

2003★ 6.0

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

A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter....

#3
Making Love

Making Love

1982★ 6.8

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

A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men....

#4
Goodbye Again

Goodbye Again

1961★ 7.1

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

Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner be...

#5
Strictly Sexual

Strictly Sexual

2008★ 6.1

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

Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes....

#6
The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces

1996★ 6.7

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

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been...

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