
10 Best Movies Like American Splendor
If you loved American Splendor, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Crumb
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Splendor for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the gene...

American Visa
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Splendor for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After being denied an American visa, a Bolivian professor becomes involved in a web of criminal activities, holds-up the American consulate and falls for a beautiful prostitute fro...

Cándida
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Splendor for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Cándida is an lowly maid in Madrid, where she scrapes to get by and help her two useless sons, a junkie and a basket case. As her family situation goes from bad to worse, her trava...

Roy Orbison: One of the Lonely Ones
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Splendor for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Using previously unseen performances, a biography of rock balladeer Roy Orbison told through his own voice, casting new light on the triumphs and tragedies that beset his career....

Highway Patrolman
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Splendor for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often mora...

Century Egg
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Splendor for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A man returns to Taiwan, the country he left behind decades prior, only to find himself wandering a city he no longer recognizes and in the company of a stranger who took him in....