Movies like Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction (2006) is a comedy movie directed by Marc Forster. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Sliding Doors (1998)
★ 6.5 · 1,458 votes · Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she runs down, her life suddenly splits off. In one version she catches the train; in the second, she misses it. Her whole life changes in that one second, and the rest of the film depicts what happens in each scenario.
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2. The Lost City (2022)
★ 6.4 · 4,159 votes · Action, Adventure, Comedy
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to the ancient city's lost treasure that featured in her latest story. Alan, determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, sets off to rescue her.
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3. The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
★ 6.8 · 889 votes · Drama, History, Comedy
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
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4. Adaptation. (2002)
★ 7.3 · 2,913 votes · Comedy, Crime, Drama
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.
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5. As Good as It Gets (1997)
★ 7.4 · 4,282 votes · Drama, Comedy, Romance
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
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6. Romancing the Stone (1984)
★ 6.8 · 2,141 votes · Romance, Comedy, Adventure
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
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7. Shadowlands (1993)
★ 6.9 · 319 votes · Drama, Romance
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham.
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8. (500) Days of Summer (2009)
★ 7.3 · 11,381 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.
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9. Something from Tiffany's (2022)
★ 6.7 · 332 votes · Romance, Comedy, Drama
One woman's life is forever changed by an engagement ring meant for someone else.
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10. Love, Rosie (2014)
★ 7.8 · 6,600 votes · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more?
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11. My Oxford Year (2025)
★ 7.0 · 653 votes · Romance, Comedy, Drama
An ambitious American fulfilling her dream of studying at Oxford falls for a charming Brit hiding a secret that may upend her perfectly planned life.
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12. Love Again (2023)
★ 6.7 · 499 votes · Romance, Drama, Comedy
Mira Ray, dealing with the loss of her fiancé, John, sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number… not realizing the number was reassigned to Rob Burns' new work phone. Rob, a journalist, is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts. When he’s assigned to write a profile of megastar Céline Dion, he enlists her help in figuring out how to meet Mira in person and win her heart.
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13. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
★ 6.7 · 401 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.
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14. Defending Your Life (1991)
★ 6.9 · 334 votes · Romance, Fantasy, Comedy
Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. As the self-doubting Daniel struggles to make his case, a budding relationship with the uninhibited Julia offers him a chance to finally feel alive.
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15. Far from Heaven (2002)
★ 7.1 · 698 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
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16. My Girl (1991)
★ 7.4 · 2,376 votes · Comedy, Drama
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
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