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10 Best Movies Like It's Just Awful!

If you loved It's Just Awful!, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Hanni & Nanni 3

Hanni & Nanni 3

2013★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Just Awful! for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Lindenhof School is expecting a busload of proper young English ladies as exchange students. The shock is great when the students turn out to be teenage boys! But while Mademoi...

#2
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

2009★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Just Awful! for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journal...

#3
Decalogue IV

Decalogue IV

1989★ 7.8

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

A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceas...

#4
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

1957★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Just Awful! for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fan...

#5
The Man Who Would Be King

The Man Who Would Be King

1975★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to It's Just Awful! for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After...

#6
Men

Men

1924★ 7.2

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

Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who...