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10 Best Movies Like Ma's Pride and Joy

If you loved Ma's Pride and Joy, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Thunderstruck

Thunderstruck

2012★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma's Pride and Joy for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an imp...

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Ricky Gervais: Humanity

Ricky Gervais: Humanity

2018★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma's Pride and Joy for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

In his first special in seven years, Ricky Gervais slings his trademark snark at celebrity, mortality and a society that takes everything personally....

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Ricky Gervais: Mortality

Ricky Gervais: Mortality

2025★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma's Pride and Joy for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality....

#4
Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis

Taylor Tomlinson: Quarter-Life Crisis

2020★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma's Pride and Joy for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Comedian Taylor Tomlinson is halfway through her 20s — and she's over it. From dating losers to a failed engagement, she takes aim at her life choices....

#5
Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma's Pride and Joy for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more....

#6
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ma's Pride and Joy for fans of Comedy. 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...

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