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10 Best Movies Like Just Messing About

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

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#1
Paula

Paula

2016★ 6.3

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

Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules....

#2
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#3
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

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

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#4
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#5
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Just Messing About 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
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1998★ 6.6

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

Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will ...

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