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10 Best Movies Like Everything's Jake

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

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#1
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#2
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.1

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

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#3
Same Kind of Different as Me

Same Kind of Different as Me

2017★ 6.8

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

International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on t...

#4
The Good Heart

The Good Heart

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Everything's Jake for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking hi...

#5
Being Flynn

Being Flynn

2012★ 6.2

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

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of rea...

#6
Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards

2007★ 7.4

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

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers f...

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