If You Liked The Lady in the Van, Watch These Next
Finished The Lady in the Van (2015) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Lady in the Van, most of them are comedy, drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Sweetness in the Belly(2019)
6.2DramaAlso drama
Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a…
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2.The Hours(2002)
7.3DramaAlso drama
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
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3.All Together Now(2020)
6.7DramaAlso drama
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
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4.Night and the City(1950)
7.5DramaCrimeAlso drama
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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5.Chloe and Theo(2015)
5.8ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for…
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6.Oliver Twist(2005)
6.8CrimeDramaFamilyAlso drama
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
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7.The End We Start From(2023)
5.8DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
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8.The Good Half(2024)
6.2ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
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9.Our Mother's House(1967)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.
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10.Gigi & Nate(2022)
7.7DramaAlso drama
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
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11.A Dog Year(2009)
6.1ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he…
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12.Where'd You Go, Bernadette(2019)
6.6ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter, Bee, goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
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13.Hope and Glory(1987)
6.9DramaWarFamilyAlso drama
A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
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15.Somers Town(2008)
6.8ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.
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17.My Own Love Song(2010)
6.2ComedyDramaAlso comedy and drama
A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.
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18.FX's A Christmas Carol(2019)
7.2DramaFantasyAlso drama
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
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19.Kinky Boots(2005)
6.7ComedyDramaMusicAlso comedy and drama
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.
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