Movies like Frances Ha
Frances Ha (2013) is a comedy movie directed by Noah Baumbach. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Shall We Dance? (2004)
★ 6.4 · 1,326 votes · Drama, Romance, Comedy
A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
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2. Lady Bird (2017)
★ 7.2 · 9,223 votes · Drama, Comedy
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
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3. Billy Elliot (2000)
★ 7.6 · 4,199 votes · Drama, Comedy, Music
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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4. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
★ 7.4 · 14,328 votes · Drama, Comedy
A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.
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5. White Men Can't Jump (1992)
★ 6.7 · 1,598 votes · Comedy, Drama
Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
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6. Ghost World (2001)
★ 7.1 · 1,648 votes · Comedy, Drama
Two quirky, cynical, teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives following high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle-aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.
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7. Paper Man (2009)
★ 6.3 · 378 votes · Comedy, Drama
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his imaginary Superhero friend.
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8. My Dinner with Andre (1981)
★ 7.5 · 490 votes · Drama, Comedy
Wally, a struggling playwright and actor, reluctantly agrees to catch up with his old friend Andre, a theater director who disappeared several years prior in order to travel the world. Meeting at a posh Manhattan restaurant, the two share life stories, anecdotes and philosophical musings over the course of an evening meal.
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