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10 Best Movies Like Absolute Beginners

If you loved Absolute Beginners, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Absolute Power

Absolute Power

1997★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absolute Beginners for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while hold...

#2
Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme

Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absolute Beginners for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are inv...

#3
Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys

2000★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absolute Beginners for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning 'Great American Novel' 7 years ago. This weekend proves even wors...

#4
The Russia House

The Russia House

1990★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absolute Beginners for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a di...

#5
A Private Function

A Private Function

1984★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absolute Beginners for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry ...

#6
Sicilian Letters

Sicilian Letters

2024★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absolute Beginners for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve h...