If You Liked About Alex, Watch These Next
Finished About Alex (2014) 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 About Alex, most of them are comedy, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Somewhere in Queens(2023)
6.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
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3.Hooking Up(2020)
6.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering…
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6.Playing God(2021)
6.0ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.
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8.Family Weekend(2013)
6.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
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9.Fat Kid Rules The World(2012)
6.7DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
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11.Class Act(1992)
6.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is ajuvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only the school bully would stop trying to rough him up. And Blade…
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12.Almost Friends(2017)
6.3DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine…
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13.On Becoming a Guinea Fowl(2024)
7.6ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
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14.House of D(2004)
6.3ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush…
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16.Small Apartments(2012)
5.9ComedyCrimeDramaAlso comedy and drama
When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.
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17.The Adults(2023)
6.2DramaComedyAlso drama and comedy
Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old…
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19.The Joneses(2010)
6.2ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
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