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10 Best Movies Like Blue in the Face

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

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#1
Smoke

Smoke

1995★ 7.2

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

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he w...

#2
Arizona Dream

Arizona Dream

1993★ 7.2

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

An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturali...

#3
Pelle the Conqueror

Pelle the Conqueror

1987★ 7.3

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

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to tr...

#4
Age of Panic

Age of Panic

2013★ 6.0

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

May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunda...

#5
The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk

1940★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Blue in the Face for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures....

#6
Dangerous Game

Dangerous Game

1993★ 5.7

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

A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead ac...