If You Liked Forrest Gump, Watch These Next
Finished Forrest Gump (1994) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Forrest Gump, most of them are comedy, drama, romance.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Waiting to Exhale(1995)
6.2ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
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2.The Bachelors(2017)
7.0ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
After the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life and love again
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3.The Holdovers(2023)
7.6DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in…
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4.As Good as It Gets(1997)
7.4DramaComedyRomanceAlso drama and comedy
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
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5.About a Boy(2002)
6.7DramaComedyRomanceAlso drama and comedy
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms, Will gets a hilarious lesson about life from a bright, but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will…
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6.The Way We Were(1973)
7.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
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7.200 Cigarettes(1999)
5.8ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
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8.Great Expectations(1998)
6.7ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the surprising interactions of these vivid characters, "Great Expectations" takes a unique and…
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9.The Jane Austen Book Club(2007)
6.5ComedyRomanceAlso comedy and romance
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
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10.The History of Love(2016)
6.4DramaRomanceWarAlso drama and romance
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
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11.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)
7.6DramaFantasyRomanceAlso drama and romance
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course…
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12.I Met a Girl(2020)
6.4RomanceDramaComedyAlso romance and drama
An aspiring musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his long-suffering brother to chase after him.
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13.Jersey Girl(2004)
6.2ComedyRomanceDramaAlso comedy and romance
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by…
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14.Anywhere but Here(1999)
6.1DramaComedyRomanceAlso drama and comedy
Single mother Adele August is bad with money, and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter, Ann, is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When Adele decides to pack up and move the two of them from the Midwest to Beverly Hills, Calif., to pursue her dreams of…
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15.The Spectacular Now(2013)
6.7ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.
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16.Peace, Love & Misunderstanding(2011)
5.8ComedyDramaRomanceAlso comedy and drama
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.
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17.Turtles All the Way Down(2024)
7.2DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.
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18.Love, Rosie(2014)
7.8RomanceDramaComedyAlso romance and drama
Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and…
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19.Secret Beyond the Door(1947)
6.5MysteryThrillerDramaAlso drama and romance
After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth…
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