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10 Best Movies Like Amateur

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

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#1
Where the Money Is

Where the Money Is

2000★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Crime & Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned ...

#2
Things Change

Things Change

1988★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Crime & Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mi...

#3
Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Crime & Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved br...

#4
Defendor

Defendor

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Crime & Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn'...

#5
Breaking News in Yuba County

Breaking News in Yuba County

2021★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Crime & Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the...

#6
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Amateur for fans of Crime & Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconcepti...

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