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10 Best Movies Like The Great Pretender

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

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#1
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XX/XY

2002★ 5.8

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

Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later....

#2
Love Jones

Love Jones

1997★ 7.3

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

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or ...

#3
(Untitled)

(Untitled)

2009★ 6.4

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

A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art....

#4
Walking and Talking

Walking and Talking

1996★ 6.0

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

Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back....

#5
Author! Author!

Author! Author!

1982★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Pretender for fans of Drama & Comedy & Romance. 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
Julia

Julia

1977★ 6.5

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

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany....

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