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10 Best Movies Like Do the Right Thing

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

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#1
Defendor

Defendor

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Do the Right Thing for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn'...

#2
Amateur

Amateur

1994★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Do the Right Thing for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to writ...

#3
Breaking News in Yuba County

Breaking News in Yuba County

2021★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Do the Right Thing for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the...

#4
Going by the Book

Going by the Book

2007★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Do the Right Thing for fans of Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The chief of Sampo City Police Office, Seung-u, organizes a simulation of a bank robbery, but a by-the-book cop gets too caught up in the role playing in which the simulation doesn...

#5
Where the Money Is

Where the Money Is

2000★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Do the Right Thing for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned ...

#6
Thick as Thieves

Thick as Thieves

1999★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Do the Right Thing for fans of Drama & Comedy & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jaz...

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