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Movies that feel like The Family Stone (2005)

If you loved The Family Stone, the closest films we have are Home for the Holidays (1995), I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006) and Take This Waltz (2011). All three share The Family Stone's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

🍅 52% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Thomas Bezuchawittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Family (2013)

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Home for the Holidays
1995 · dir. Jodie Foster
🍅 63%6.6comedy · drama · romance

Common ground in both: holiday and christmas

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2006 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 92%6.9drama · comedy · romance

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.

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Take This Waltz
2011 · dir. Sarah Polley
🍅 79%6.5drama · comedy · romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.

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Love Is All You Need
2012 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 75%6.5comedy · romance · drama

Comedy built on tenderness, twice over

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

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Away We Go
2009 · dir. Sam Mendes
🍅 67%7drama · comedy · romance

Both lean on wit more than on drama

Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2008 · dir. Aditya Chopra
🍅 78%7.2comedy · drama · romance

Playful romance in both cases

A boring, reserved husband secretly becomes a lively, confident stranger to woo his own unaware wife only to make her fall head over heels for his dashing alter ego.

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Late Marriage
2001 · dir. Dover Koshashvili
🍅 88%7.1comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.

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Drinking Buddies
2013 · dir. Joe Swanberg
🍅 84%6.1romance · drama · comedy

Drama with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.

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Igby Goes Down
2002 · dir. Burr Steers
🍅 75%6.8comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: falling in love

The difference: None of the tenderness The Family Stone is built on

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

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Beginners
2011 · dir. Mike Mills
🍅 86%7.2drama · romance · comedy

Tender romance, and it commits to that

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.

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Kal Ho Naa Ho
2003 · dir. Nikkhil Advani
🍅 75%7.9comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

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Jab We Met
2007 · dir. Imtiaz Ali
🍅 100%7.9drama · comedy · romance

Drama built on play, twice over

A depressed wealthy businessman and a spunky carefree young woman embark on an unexpected journey that changes their lives.

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