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10 Best Movies Like The Notch

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

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#1
Circumstance

Circumstance

2011★ 6.6

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

A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism....

#2
Appropriate Behavior

Appropriate Behavior

2015★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Notch 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....

#3
My First Mister

My First Mister

2001★ 6.5

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

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is he...

#4
Not Without My Daughter

Not Without My Daughter

1991★ 6.7

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

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well....

#5
Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon

2003★ 6.0

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

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up....

#6
Husbands and Wives

Husbands and Wives

1992★ 7.0

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

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage....

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