20 best movies like Grandma's Boy (2006)

List of the best movies like Grandma's Boy (2006): The One and Only Ivan, Reality Bites, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Frances Ha, The Way Way Back, Dirty Weekend, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The DUFF, Dear White People, The Thing About Harry.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, family
CountryUSA

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize that reality isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, end as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love - even if it's with a man 20 years her junior.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Brazil
Duration01:26

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.

Markimdb: 5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico

During a layover in Albuquerque, work colleagues Les and Natalie discover more about each other than they ever thought possible. Anxious and irritable, Les is drawn back into the city by past experiences he can’t forget (even if he doesn't really remember the particulars of his previous drunken adventure). Natalie, refusing to leave his side, follows along as her own secrets are slowly revealed, leaving her feeling both vulnerable and unbound.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:40

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

    Bianca's universe turns upside down when she learns that her high school refers to her as a ‘DUFF' (Designated Ugly Fat Friend). Hoping to erase that label, she enlists the help of a charming jock and her favorite teacher. Together they'll face the school's mean girl and remind everyone that we are all someone's DUFF… and that's totally fine.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Two high school enemies, uber-jock Harry and out-and-proud Sam, are forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend's engagement party on Valentine's Day. Things take a turn when Sam learns Harry has come out.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, short
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France

    Fourteen years after the events of the first film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA, Romania
    Duration01:40

    By day Gerri Dandridge is a sexy professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. When a group of high school students travel abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in her chilling web of lust and terror. Charlie and 'Evil' Ed must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a 'new moon virgin', who just so happens to be Charlie’s ex-girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:39

    Two salesmen trash a company truck on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice: do hard time or spend 150 service hours with a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure, family, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:32

    Based on Gordon Korman's book 'Swindle,' this movie is about a boy named Griffin who finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the baseball card.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    When nerdy high schooler Dani finally attracts the interest of her longtime crush, she lands in the cross hairs of his ex, a social media celebrity.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, documentary
    CountryUSA

    Jerry Seinfeld returns to the club that gave him his start in the 1970s, mixing iconic jokes with stories from his childhood and early days in comedy.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:39

    By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired of the game and is looking for something more meaningful and lasting. So when Kate, Richard’s tanned, athletic, 25-year-old American girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, Richard is thrilled. He looks forward to having a family of his own, being a father his children could be proud of, not some sex-fueled bobcat. There is only one problem. Richard’s not in love with Kate. Richard is in love with Kate’s sister, Olivia. He had been in love with her ever since he first saw her.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryUSA

    Third-grader Judy Moody sets out to have the most thrilling summer of her life.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:19

    Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA

    Three young friends find adventure and purpose in their attempts to set a Guinness World Record. Set in a wintry mountain town, the unpopular trio pursues fame through a series of schemes and stunts that eventually imperil their own lives. Along the way, they conquer schoolyard bullies, unite their community and discover that while fame is fleeting, true friendship lasts forever.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:00

    Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem - the union seems embarrassed to receive their support. However the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village of Onllwyn, in the Dulais Valley in Wales, and later set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the prospect of a surprise daughter-in-law, they face a difficult choice: either adapt with the times or risk being left behind.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    When an ordinary boy Davis, suddenly becomes famous at school as people start to believe he's actually a vampire, vampire expert Cameron helps him act like a real vampire.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrecomedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Wren is invited to a Halloween party by her crush, Aaron Riley, but she is also forced by her mother to take her oddball little brother Albert with her when she goes out trick-or-treating on Halloween. When she goes to the party instead, she loses him and must find him before her mother finds out.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    What happens when three sets of BFF's become enemies?

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:27

    An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    When Hardy Buchanan, a senior at an elite private school, needs to make some quick cash, he enlists the help of Bo, a beautiful runaway. Together, they devise an unconventional plan of profiting off of the wayward teens at Hardy's school. When the students learn that Bo has more to offer than what meets the eye, the unlikely duo's new business takes a unique turn, tossing them headfirst into the lifestyles of the rich and dysfunctional.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration04:15

    An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:19

    A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:37

      15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration02:35

      Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

        A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:30

        Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        Eight close friends soak up their last day of summer together on the beach before parting ways for college.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, family, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Mitchie can't wait to go back to Camp Rock and spend the summer making new music with her friends and superstar Shane Gray. But the slick new camp across the lake, Camp Star, has drummed up some serious competition — featuring newcomers Luke (Matthew "Mdot" Finley) and Dana (Chloe Bridges). In a sensational battle of the bands, with Camp Rock's future at stake, will Camp Star's flashy production and over-the-top antics win out, or will Camp Rockers prove that music, teamwork, and spirit are what truly matter?

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to derail his life plan.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:22

        Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy is a hard-living, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what the rest of us already know - other people's children are awful.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA

        Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, sending both of them into a darkly comedic journey of self discovery and love.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA

        Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love with his classmate, Katie, and learns that he has to make a choice between playing tennis and receiving a proper education. General Education is a quirky comedy about a family learning to grow together.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrecomedy, drama, musical, family, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

          The story follows five disparate high school students - Olivia, Mo, Charlie, Stella, and Wen who meet in detention. They realize they are destined to rock, and ultimately form a band that becomes a champion for students sidelined by the high school elite.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:40

          A comedy centered on two best friends, Kim and Deena, who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.




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