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10 Best Movies Like Lessons of the Playground

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

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#1
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lessons of the Playground for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#2
Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes

1990★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lessons of the Playground for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat....

#3
Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde

1987★ 6.9

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

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the not...

#4
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

2025★ 6.3

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

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure...

#5
Funny Farm

Funny Farm

1988★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lessons of the Playground for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farm...

#6
Re-Cut

Re-Cut

2010★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lessons of the Playground for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investiga...