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10 Best Movies Like Mad World

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

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#1
Daisies

Daisies

1966★ 7.3

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

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them....

#2
Weeds on Fire

Weeds on Fire

2016★ 6.3

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

Inspired by the true story of Hong Kong’s first teenage baseball team. In the 1980s, two childhood friends join the Shatin Martins, a Band 3 school baseball team managed by the sch...

#3
Why We Fight: Prelude to War

Why We Fight: Prelude to War

1942★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mad World for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops...

#4
Love Off the Cuff

Love Off the Cuff

2017★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mad World for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung reprise their popular roles as a star-crossed couple who strive to stay together happily ever after, only to find their already precarious relationship f...

#5
Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?

Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?

1983★ 6.9

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

A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends....

#6
Hanzi

Hanzi

2017★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mad World for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Hanzi is a documentary exploring international design, visual culture, and identity through the lens of modern Chinese typography. The film covers a variety of topics such as how l...