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10 Best Movies Like This Time Around

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

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#1
Savages

Savages

1995★ 5.6

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

A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash....

#2
Queen of Katwe

Queen of Katwe

2016★ 7.2

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

A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master....

#3
Goodbye Bafana

Goodbye Bafana

2007★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Time Around for fans of History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela....

#4
A Time for Dancing

A Time for Dancing

2002★ 6.7

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

Their love of dance, and their friendship, is challenged for two high school girls when one is diagnosed with cancer....

#5
27 Dresses

27 Dresses

2008★ 6.5

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

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores....

#6
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1993★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to This Time Around for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally...