Movies and TV Shows like References (2009)

Browse our definitive list of the best movies or TV series most similar to the 2009 movie References starring Michael Jason Allen, Joanna Ke, Laura Durant, Seth Gandrud.

Updated: 27th Jun, 2022

References

9.1 / 10

Released: 2009

When Marla receives a call that her Aunt Helen is ill, Marla decides to take a break from her redundant city life and head to the small town of North Lake to…

In-Lawfully Yours

5.9 / 10

Released: 2016

Following both the death of her father-in-law and a divorce, Jesse, a New Yorker, returns to a small town to live with her now widowed mother-in-law. Jesse struggles to fit in with…

The Cruise

9.4 / 10

Released: 2021–

How are we going to lift the veiled sheets of the word remember this season? Of course,remember your name,your life, everything that belongs to you, but how will you remember who you…

Alias Jesse James

6.5 / 10

Released: 1959

Inept insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a $100,000 policy. When his boss learns the man was Jesse James he sends Milford after him with money to buy back the policy.…

Lake Alice

3.7 / 10

Released: 2018

Meeting his girlfriend's family for the first time, Ryan must prove his intentions with their daughter, Sarah, and win the approval of her father, Greg. All the while masking his jealousy for…

Cortez

7.9 / 10

Released: 2017

After a canceled tour, flailing musician Jesse Lirette seeks out an old flame in a small town in Northern New Mexico. When an arrogant attempt at inserting himself into her family fails,…

Home for the Holidays

6.6 / 10

Released: 1995

After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the…

Bubble

6.5 / 10

Released: 2005

In a small North American town, the middle age Martha and the twenty and something years old Kyle work in a doll factory. Martha nurses her old father and usually gives a…

I Need Romance

7.0 / 10

Released: 2011–

As a hotel concierge manager tries to sort out her relationship with her ex, events take an unforeseen turn when the hotel's heir enters the picture.

Beaus of Holly

5.8 / 10

Released: 2020

A woman proposes to her boyfriend who says he has to work things out with an ex before he can answer, leaving her to take a romantic sleigh ride alone with a…