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10 Best Movies Like The Actor

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

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#1
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

2025★ 6.7

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

A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by n...

#2
God Bless America

God Bless America

2012★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Actor for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant....

#3
Panic

Panic

2000★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Actor for fans of Crime & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...

#4
Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Actor for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved br...

#5
I Care a Lot

I Care a Lot

2021★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Actor for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage....

#6
Intermission

Intermission

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Actor for fans of Comedy & Crime & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconcepti...

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