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10 Best Movies Like Detention 101

If you loved Detention 101, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Superintelligence

Superintelligence

2020★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detention 101 for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, ...

#2
Robot & Frank

Robot & Frank

2012★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detention 101 for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concern...

#3
Bicentennial Man

Bicentennial Man

1999★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detention 101 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a ro...

#4
Sleeper

Sleeper

1973★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detention 101 for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government reg...

#5
Short Circuit

Short Circuit

1986★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detention 101 for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get t...

#6
Smart House

Smart House

1999★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detention 101 for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ben Cooper and his family are struggling to get a grip on household chores, school and work. So when Ben sees that a Smart House is being given away, he enters the competition as o...

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