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10 Best Movies Like Obvious Child

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

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#1
Space Milkshake

Space Milkshake

2012★ 5.2

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

Four low-ranking astronauts are stuck together on an orbital Sanitation Station after they bring a mysterious device aboard their ship and all life on Earth disappears. Little do t...

#2
Zero Motivation

Zero Motivation

2014★ 6.4

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

Filmmaker Talya Lavie steps into the spotlight with a dark comedy about everyday life for a unit of young female Israeli soldiers. The human resources office at a remote desert bas...

#3
Sybil

Sybil

2007★ 6.5

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

A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder....

#4
Tig

Tig

2015★ 7.2

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

An intimate documentary that follows Tig Notaro, a Los Angeles based comedian, who just days after being diagnosed with invasive stage II breast cancer changed the course of her ca...

#5
Waiting for Guffman

Waiting for Guffman

1996★ 7.0

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

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort ...

#6
Better Living Through Chemistry

Better Living Through Chemistry

2014★ 5.9

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

A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possib...