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10 Best Movies Like Slackers

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

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#1
Urban Legend

Urban Legend

1998★ 5.7

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

A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends....

#2
Jane Austen's Mafia!

Jane Austen's Mafia!

1998★ 5.4

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

After growing up poor in Salmonella, Vincenzo Cortino installs himself as the preeminent, if bumbling, Mafia don of the New World. But now he must pass on power to one of his two s...

#3
Get a Clue

Get a Clue

2002★ 5.3

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

A wealthy student with too much fashion sense, her equally rich friends, and her rival/superior from the school paper work together to solve the case when their teacher goes missin...

#4
The Gate

The Gate

1987★ 6.1

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

Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the thre...

#5
The Slammin' Salmon

The Slammin' Salmon

2009★ 5.8

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

The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most mone...

#6
Mama's Boy

Mama's Boy

2007★ 4.6

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

A twenty-nine year-old slacker who lives with his mom realizes his sweet set-up is threatened when she hears wedding bells with her self-help guru beau....