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Movies that feel likePerfect Strangers (2016)

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

If you loved Perfect Strangers, the closest films we have are Another Round (2020), In a Better World (2010) and Three Steps Above Heaven (2010). All three share Perfect Strangers' contemplative and warm feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paolo Genovesecontemplativewarmromantic
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Hulu · Disney Plus

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If Perfect Strangers hit the spot, these will too

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Another Round
2020 · dir. Thomas Vinterberg
🍅 93%★ 7.7dramaNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: friendship

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Perfect Strangers does

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%★ 7.6drama

Both are built on the same subject: friendship

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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Three Steps Above Heaven
2010 · dir. Fernando González Molina
★ 6.8romance · drama

One thread runs through both: love

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Perfect Strangers does

Babi, a sheltered upper-class girl, and Hache, a reckless rebel obsessed with illegal motorcycle races, fall into a forbidden love that pulls them deeper into passion and risk.

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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2013 · dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
🍅 75%★ 8.2drama

The same preoccupation in both: love

The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.

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Wendy and Lucy
2008 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 85%★ 7.1drama

Contemplative where it counts, warm underneath

A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.

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The Quiet Girl
2022 · dir. Colm Bairéad
🍅 97%★ 7.7drama

Drama built on romance, twice over

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

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Challengers
2024 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 88%★ 7drama · romanceParamount+

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

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Remember the Titans
2000 · dir. Boaz Yakin
🍅 72%★ 7.8dramaHuluDisney+

Warm drama, and it commits to that

After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.

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The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · dir. Anthony Minghella
🍅 85%★ 7.4thriller · crime · dramaParamount+Starz

Both are working the same pair: jealousy, italy

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

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After the Wedding
2006 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 87%★ 7.7drama

The shared currency is romance

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

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The Sea Inside
2004 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%★ 7.9drama

A streak of stillness through both

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

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Faces Places
2017 · dir. Agnès Varda
🍅 99%★ 7.8documentary

Both work the same warmth

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.

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