Movies Like Katie Says Goodbye (2018)

Katie Says Goodbye is a 2018 drama film from Wayne Roberts with a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Rosetta and Cocoon.

Drama

Rosetta

1999

Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.

7.2

MagicScore

Cocoon

2020

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.

6.0

MagicScore

Les Misérables

2012

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

7.3

MagicScore

Youth in Revolt

2009

As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's love at first sight for frustrated and inexperienced Nick. Learning that she is dating someone, Nick launches a hilarious quest to find his way into Sheeni's heart -- and bed.

6.2

MagicScore

Make Up

2020

After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.

5.8

MagicScore

Kids on the Slope

2018

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.

7.3

MagicScore

American Graffiti

1973

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

7.0

MagicScore

A Summer's Tale

1996

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends—and flirts heavily with—two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

7.4

MagicScore

Mystic Pizza

1988

Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

6.3

MagicScore

#10

Gas Food Lodging

1992

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.

6.3

MagicScore

#11

Sling Blade

1996

Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.

7.5

MagicScore

#12

Mysterious Skin

2005

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

7.7

MagicScore

#13

Risky Business

1983

Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.

6.6

MagicScore

#14

Foxes

1980

A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

5.9

MagicScore

#15

Love Strange Love

1982

A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.

5.8

MagicScore

#16

The Harvesters

2018

South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.

5.7

MagicScore

#17

California Typewriter

2017

A story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. A meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

The Whale

2022

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

7.8

MagicScore

#19

Polyester

1981

Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow. Originally screened with "Odorama" scratch and sniff cards so the audience could (at their own risk) smell along with the film.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

When It Melts

2023

Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.

6.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Katie Says Goodbye?

The top films similar to Katie Says Goodbye by MovieMagicScore are Rosetta (7.2), Cocoon (6.0), Les Misérables (7.3). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Katie Says Goodbye worth watching?

Katie Says Goodbye holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10 from 62 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Katie Says Goodbye?

Katie Says Goodbye (2018) is a drama film directed by Wayne Roberts, starring Olivia Cooke, Mireille Enos, Christopher Abbott.

Where can I find more recommendations like Katie Says Goodbye?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Katie Says Goodbye

This ranked list pairs Katie Says Goodbye (2018), a drama film from Wayne Roberts, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Olivia Cooke 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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