Movies Like Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

Infinitely Polar Bear is a 2014 comedy, drama film from Maya Forbes with a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Seven Minutes in Heaven and Sugar Daddy.

Comedy Drama

Seven Minutes in Heaven

1986

Natalie allows her classmate Jeff, who has run away from home, to stay at her place while her father is away on a business trip. Natalie soon starts dating Jeff's friend James Casey, who isn't as faithful as she thinks, while her best friend Polly falls in love with baseball player Zoo Knudsen.

6.0

MagicScore

Sugar Daddy

2021

When a struggling musician can't afford her rent, she signs up for a website where rich older men pay to date younger women. Her new money-making venture sends her down a dark rabbit hole that forces her to grow up fast, shaping her music, and how she sees the world.

6.4

MagicScore

Lady Bird

2017

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.

7.2

MagicScore

Forever Young

2022

At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.

6.4

MagicScore

Strike!

1998

In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.

6.3

MagicScore

Slums of Beverly Hills

1998

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

6.3

MagicScore

Past Lives

2023

After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

7.7

MagicScore

Aftersun

2022

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

7.7

MagicScore

Honey Boy

2019

The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.

7.0

MagicScore

#10

Chocolat

1988

On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.

6.9

MagicScore

#11

American Girl

2021

When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.

6.6

MagicScore

#12

The Tango Lesson

1997

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.

6.5

MagicScore

#13

The Souvenir: Part II

2021

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

6.5

MagicScore

#14

The Souvenir

2019

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

6.1

MagicScore

#15

About My Father

2023

Encouraged by his girlfriend Ellie, Sebastian and his Italian immigrant father, Salvo, spend the 4th of July weekend with her wealthy and exceedingly eccentric family. The gathering soon develops into a culture clash, allowing father and son to discover the true meaning of family.

6.0

MagicScore

#16

Summer '03

2018

16-year-old Jamie Winkle and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed. As her family deals with her grandmother's surprising dying messages, Jamie sets out to make the most of her summer and explores her sexuality.

5.8

MagicScore

#17

Yelling To The Sky

2011

As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.

5.5

MagicScore

#18

Abuse of Weakness

2013

A stroke-afflicted filmmaker is manipulated by a notorious con man.

5.1

MagicScore

#19

We'll Never Have Paris

2014

Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."

4.8

MagicScore

#20

Two Is a Family

2016

A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.

7.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Infinitely Polar Bear?

The top films similar to Infinitely Polar Bear by MovieMagicScore are Seven Minutes in Heaven (6.0), Sugar Daddy (6.4), Lady Bird (7.2). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Infinitely Polar Bear worth watching?

Infinitely Polar Bear holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10 from 384 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Infinitely Polar Bear?

Infinitely Polar Bear (2014) is a comedy, drama film directed by Maya Forbes, starring Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldaña, Imogene Wolodarsky.

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This ranked list pairs Infinitely Polar Bear (2014), a comedy and drama film from Maya Forbes, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Mark Ruffalo take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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