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10 Best Movies Like Unexpected

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

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#1
Numb

Numb

2007★ 5.9

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

Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink,...

#2
Mumford

Mumford

1999★ 6.5

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

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quir...

#3
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

2011★ 5.8

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

A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce....

#4
The Giant Mechanical Man

The Giant Mechanical Man

2012★ 6.5

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

An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him....

#5
Enemies, a Love Story

Enemies, a Love Story

1989★ 6.2

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

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife....

#6
He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991★ 5.8

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

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing...

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