Movies Like The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is a 2017 comedy, drama film from Noah Baumbach with a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with In the Heights and Fourteen Hours.

Comedy Drama

In the Heights

2021

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.

7.1

MagicScore

Fourteen Hours

1951

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.

7.2

MagicScore

Maps to the Stars

2014

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.

6.2

MagicScore

Stealing Beauty

1996

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

6.7

MagicScore

Islands in the Stream

1977

An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.

6.4

MagicScore

Voice from the Stone

2017

Verena is a nurse who arrives at an old mansion in Italy to help a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.

5.6

MagicScore

You Hurt My Feelings

2023

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

6.4

MagicScore

Shortcomings

2023

When his girlfriend leaves for New York City on a 3-month-long internship, a strongly opinionated Berkeley arthouse movie theater manager begins exploring life as a bachelor.

6.0

MagicScore

Marty Supreme

2025

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

7.4

MagicScore

#10

Blue Jasmine

2013

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.

7.0

MagicScore

#11

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

2004

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

7.1

MagicScore

#12

As They Made Us

2022

Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional family as she attempts to cultivate new love.

5.2

MagicScore

#13

House of Wax

1953

A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

6.9

MagicScore

#14

Providence

1977

On the eve of his 78th birthday, the ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.

6.8

MagicScore

#15

House of Horrors

1946

An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.

6.0

MagicScore

#16

Daddy and Them

2001

Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as they are for each other, their relationship is far from harmonious. (The lack of money doesn't help matters, either.) In fact, their whole family is fraught with unresolved conflicts. Then Claude's uncle is arrested on a felony charge, and everyone rallies round. Ruby's mother Jewel and flirtatious sister Rose (Claude's ex-girlfriend) even fly in from Tennessee; but, far from being a source of support, Jewel seems only to want to break up Ruby and Claude.

5.3

MagicScore

#17

Manhattan

1979

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

7.7

MagicScore

#18

Sentimental Value

2025

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

7.5

MagicScore

#19

Metropolitan

1990

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

6.9

MagicScore

#20

The Glass Castle

2017

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

7.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)?

The top films similar to The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) by MovieMagicScore are In the Heights (7.1), Fourteen Hours (7.2), Maps to the Stars (6.2). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) worth watching?

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10 from 1,234 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)?

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017) is a comedy, drama film directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman.

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About movies like The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

This ranked list pairs The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017), a comedy and drama film from Noah Baumbach, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Adam Sandler 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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