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10 Best Movies Like Desperation Boulevard

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

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#1
Thunderstruck

Thunderstruck

2012★ 6.1

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

After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an imp...

#2
Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987★ 7.3

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

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more....

#3
Adventures in Public School

Adventures in Public School

2018★ 6.3

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

A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes....

#4
A Nice Girl Like You

A Nice Girl Like You

2020★ 5.9

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

Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend. In an effort to prove him wrong, Lucy creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her...

#5
Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

1960★ 6.4

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

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful...

#6
Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh

Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh

2010★ 7.5

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

Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh features over two hours of material that's too rude for TV....

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