Movies Like Shiva Baby (2018)

Shiva Baby is a 2018 comedy, drama film from Emma Seligman with a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Whiplash and Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?.

Comedy Drama

Whiplash

2013

A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student.

7.8

MagicScore

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?

2012

A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.

6.1

MagicScore

Shiva Baby

2021

College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva - with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance.

7.1

MagicScore

The New Romantic

2018

In order to escape her looming post-graduation fate that includes student debt and zero romantic prospects, Blake Conway becomes a sugar baby. As the aspiring journalist and hopeless romantic documents the adventure, she sets out on a quest to figure out if society is right to judge these women and if her own self worth comes with a price.

6.3

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

Sugarbabies

2015

Persuaded by her roommate, a college student makes an arrangement with an older man who pays for her companionship.

6.3

MagicScore

Thunder Road

2016

Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.

7.3

MagicScore

Papi Chulo

2019

A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.

5.4

MagicScore

Negative Space

2017

Even though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.

7.4

MagicScore

#10

Almanya: Welcome to Germany

2011

After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In addition, Canan, a granddaughter of Hüseyin, announces she is pregnant and the father is her English boyfriend, and no one knew anything.

6.6

MagicScore

#11

Rock the Casbah

2013

The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.

6.3

MagicScore

#12

It Happened in Saint-Tropez

2013

Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...

5.3

MagicScore

#13

Wake

2009

When things get tough for offbeat Carys Reitman, she does what any emotionally isolated, modern girl would do - she goes to strangers' funerals...

5.0

MagicScore

#14

Sugar Daddies

2014

When a girl with a promising future finds herself in financial straits, she makes an agreement with an older man and struggles to keep it secret.

4.6

MagicScore

#15

Till

2022

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

7.3

MagicScore

#16

Things We Lost in the Fire

2007

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

6.6

MagicScore

#17

Boléro

2024

Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.

6.4

MagicScore

#18

After.Life

2009

Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.

6.3

MagicScore

#19

Deeply

2000

On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.

6.2

MagicScore

#20

Germany in Autumn

1978

The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two-month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and later murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the original leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.

6.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Shiva Baby?

The top films similar to Shiva Baby by MovieMagicScore are Whiplash (7.8), Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? (6.1), Shiva Baby (7.1). Each shares comedy/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Shiva Baby worth watching?

Shiva Baby holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10 from 26 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Shiva Baby?

Shiva Baby (2018) is a comedy, drama film directed by Emma Seligman, starring Rachel Sennott, Jason Kellerman, Robin Wesley-Peck.

Where can I find more recommendations like Shiva Baby?

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About movies like Shiva Baby

This ranked list pairs Shiva Baby (2018), a comedy and drama film from Emma Seligman, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Rachel Sennott 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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