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10 Best Movies Like Backlighting

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

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#1
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

2011★ 4.7

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

Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. Retired spy Marissa is called back into act...

#2
Step Up 3D

Step Up 3D

2010★ 6.8

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

A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip-hop dancers...

#3
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds

Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds

2010★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Backlighting for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

With Maltazard now seven feet tall and Arthur still two inches small, our hero must find a way to grow back to his normal size and stop the Evil M once and for all, with the help o...

#4
Step Up 2: The Streets

Step Up 2: The Streets

2008★ 6.7

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

When rebellious street dancer Andie West lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while also trying to hold onto her old life. When she ...

#5
Camping 2

Camping 2

2010★ 4.8

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

Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put th...

#6
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

2015★ 5.2

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

Security guard Paul Blart is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya before she departs for college. While at the convention, he inadvert...