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10 Best Movies Like Idle Hands

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

1960★ 6.8

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

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued ...

#4
My Policeman

My Policeman

2022★ 7.6

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

In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship ...

#5
How to Please a Woman

How to Please a Woman

2022★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Idle Hands for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself....

#6
The Lords of Flatbush

The Lords of Flatbush

1974★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Idle Hands for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into stre...

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