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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 Three Steps Above Heaven (2010), Challengers (2024) and Another Round (2020). 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 Enchanted April (1991).

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

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If Perfect Strangers hit the spot, these will too

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

Both are working the same pair: friendship, 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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Challengers
2024 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 88%★ 7drama · romanceParamount+

Contemplative and warm in the same breath

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

The same two preoccupations: jealousy, and 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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In a Better World
2010 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 77%★ 7.6drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

Drama built on warmth, twice over

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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Enchanted April
1991 · dir. Mike Newell
🍅 85%★ 7.3romance · drama

Common ground: italy

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1990s show

When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respective spouses, they stay at a castle in Italy for a quiet holiday. Joining the ladies is Caroline Dester, a young socialite, and Mrs. Fisher, an older aristocrat. Liberated from their daily routines, the four women ease into life in rural Italy, and each finds herself transformed by the experience.

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Jules and Jim
1962 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 94%★ 7.6drama · romanceMax

Both are built on the same subject: jealousy

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Both run romantic where it counts

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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Queen
2014 · dir. Vikas Bahl
🍅 90%★ 8.1comedy · drama

Both work the same romance

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

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