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10 Best Movies Like The Help

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

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#1
Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures

2016★ 8.1

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

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest o...

#2
Easy A

Easy A

2010★ 6.8

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

Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing...

#3
The House Bunny

The House Bunny

2008★ 5.7

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

Shelley is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless...

#4
Friends with Benefits

Friends with Benefits

2011★ 6.6

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

Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advant...

#5
Magic in the Moonlight

Magic in the Moonlight

2014★ 6.5

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

Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud....

#6
Crash

Crash

2005★ 7.2

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

In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Kore...