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10 Best Movies Like Chumlum

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

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#1
The Life of Juanita Castro

The Life of Juanita Castro

1965★ 6.7

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

A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family....

#2
Dune

Dune

2020★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chumlum 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....

#3
Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me

Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me

2018★ 6.3

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

The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, the man poised to be the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his...

#4
The FGM Detectives

The FGM Detectives

2018★ 6.5

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

The horrific crime of female genital mutilation is banned in the UK but it is estimated that nearly 20,000 young women a year are still at risk of the procedure. And despite being ...

#5
Moscow-Cassiopeia

Moscow-Cassiopeia

1974★ 6.2

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

Several children go on a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school....

#6
Dragstrip Girl

Dragstrip Girl

1994★ 3.4

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

Among the backdrop of 1950s Los Angeles, Johnny, a working-class hoodlum caught up with a ring of car thieves, is floored when he meets Laura, a rich girl riding in a hot set of wh...