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10 Best Movies Like Burn After Reading

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

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#1
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

2009★ 6.9

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

Follows three social outcasts -- two geeks and a cynic -- as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub....

#2
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000★ 7.3

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

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them....

#3
A Serious Man

A Serious Man

2009★ 6.7

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

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with o...

#4
Intolerable Cruelty

Intolerable Cruelty

2003★ 6.0

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

A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce....

#5
Weird Science

Weird Science

1985★ 6.6

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

Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their ...

#6
No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men

2007★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Burn After Reading for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bel...