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10 Best Movies Like John Lacklife

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

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#1
Gigi & Nate

Gigi & Nate

2022★ 7.5

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

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....

#2
Charm City Kings

Charm City Kings

2020★ 7.8

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

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse ...

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to John Lacklife 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...

#4
Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020★ 8.2

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

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left....

#5
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#6
The House of Tomorrow

The House of Tomorrow

2019★ 6.8

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

The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school....

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