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10 Best Movies Like Mean Dreams

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

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#1
Tout Schuss

Tout Schuss

2016★ 5.0

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

Max Salinger, writer divorced, flamboyant and self-absorbed, refuses to welcome her daughter for 15 years under its roof. In revenge, she steals his last manuscript and file class ...

#2
A Love You

A Love You

2015★ 6.3

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

After a drunken evening and an unforgettable night with a total stranger, Manu wakes up alone to find a message on his arm giving him an appointment in Avignon. Convinced that the ...

#3
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mean Dreams for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#4
Daylight's End

Daylight's End

2016★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mean Dreams for fans of Action. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of surv...

#5
Lean on Pete

Lean on Pete

2018★ 6.9

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

Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley ...

#6
Fame

Fame

1980★ 6.4

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

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts....