Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Bad Jim

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

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#1
Dune

Dune

2020‱★ 7.4

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

Sounds as witnesses. They blurr into memories, half-dreams, it is undecided if they are real or not. A fluctuation between imagination and reality....

#2
Jim's Story

Jim's Story

2024‱★ 6.8

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

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. T...

#3
Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion

Abbé Pierre - A Century of Devotion

2023‱★ 6.5

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

The life of Henri GrouÚs, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless....

#4
Strange Object

Strange Object

2020‱★ 6.0

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

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Afri...

#5
Godzilla Minus One

Godzilla Minus One

2023‱★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Jim for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in t...

#6
The Play House

The Play House

1921‱★ 6.8

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

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....