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10 Best Movies Like I Hate Actors

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

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#1
The Legend of Barney Thomson

The Legend of Barney Thomson

2015★ 6.1

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

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the gr...

#2
Bad

Bad

1977★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to I Hate Actors for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking fo...

#3
Alter Ego

Alter Ego

2026★ 6.6

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

Alex, a quiet forty-something, leads an ordinary life until new neighbours move in. The husband is Alex’s perfect lookalike… except for one thing: he has hair. Alex sinks into a gr...

#4
Inspector Blunder

Inspector Blunder

1980★ 6.3

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

A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the vir...

#5
CQ

CQ

2001★ 5.9

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

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a n...

#6
Five

Five

2016★ 7.0

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

A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world...

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