Movies Like Adult Life Skills (2016)

Adult Life Skills is a 2016 comedy, drama film from Rachel Tunnard with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Dark Side of Love and Peel.

Comedy Drama

The Dark Side of Love

1984

The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.

5.4

MagicScore

Peel

2019

After his father takes his two brothers and high tails it, Peel is forced to grow up in a state of arrested development. Once his mother dies, he must forge his own path and attempts to find his lost brethren.

6.4

MagicScore

Chuck & Buck

2000

Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life, Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation—on Chuck's life.

5.9

MagicScore

Young Adult

2011

A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

5.8

MagicScore

The Piano

1993

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

7.4

MagicScore

The Unloved

2009

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.

7.0

MagicScore

Dreams of a Life

2011

A filmmaker sets out to discover the life of Joyce Vincent, who died in her bedsit in North London in 2003. Her body wasn't discovered for three years, and newspaper reports offered few details of her life - not even a photograph.

6.5

MagicScore

Sister My Sister

1994

A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever between the two sisters.

5.8

MagicScore

Beautiful Kate

2009

Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.

5.6

MagicScore

#10

Better Man

2024

Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.

7.7

MagicScore

#11

Inside Man

2006

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

7.4

MagicScore

#12

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

2022

World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends.

7.0

MagicScore

#13

Those People

2015

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.

6.9

MagicScore

#14

Lapland Odyssey

2010

Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.

6.4

MagicScore

#15

Band of Robbers

2016

A comedic thriller that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" as grown men in current day.

5.9

MagicScore

#16

The Day the Earth Stood Still

2008

A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.

5.7

MagicScore

#17

Kept Boy

2017

Farleigh Knock has a knack for keeping beautiful things, like Dennis, around his home. So when Fairleigh gives Dennis an unthinkable ultimatum for his 30th birthday, Dennis goes from a kept boy to a lost man.

5.3

MagicScore

#18

Bromates

2022

Longtime best friends Sid and Jonesie are dumped by their respective girlfriends. Both without a living situation, they decide to become "bromates", bros who are roommates, which puts their relationship to the ultimate test.

4.7

MagicScore

#19

Get Low

2010

A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

6.7

MagicScore

#20

The Alchemist Cookbook

2016

Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.

5.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Adult Life Skills?

The top films similar to Adult Life Skills by MovieMagicScore are The Dark Side of Love (5.4), Peel (6.4), Chuck & Buck (5.9). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Adult Life Skills worth watching?

Adult Life Skills holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 89 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Adult Life Skills?

Adult Life Skills (2016) is a comedy, drama film directed by Rachel Tunnard, starring Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein.

Where can I find more recommendations like Adult Life Skills?

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About movies like Adult Life Skills

This ranked list pairs Adult Life Skills (2016), a comedy and drama film from Rachel Tunnard, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Jodie Whittaker 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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