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10 Best Movies Like What Are We Doing Here?

If you loved What Are We Doing Here?, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
If Only

If Only

2004★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What Are We Doing Here? for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stricken British businessman livin...

#2
Kings & Queen

Kings & Queen

2004★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What Are We Doing Here? for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, r...

#3
Sleepless in Seattle

Sleepless in Seattle

1993★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What Are We Doing Here? for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belo...

#4
Mélo

Mélo

1986★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What Are We Doing Here? for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their live...

#5
Restless

Restless

2011★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What Are We Doing Here? for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love....

#6
Collateral Beauty

Collateral Beauty

2016★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to What Are We Doing Here? for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and...

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