Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like No Laughing Matter

If you loved No Laughing Matter, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Seeds of Yesterday

Seeds of Yesterday

2015★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Laughing Matter for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store a...

#2
Cheaters

Cheaters

2000★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Laughing Matter for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition....

#3
The Bad Seed Returns

The Bad Seed Returns

2022★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Laughing Matter for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to sus...

#4
Juniper

Juniper

2021★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Laughing Matter for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his lif...

#5
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Laughing Matter for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#6
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to No Laughing Matter for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she ...

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