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10 Best Movies Like The Ape

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

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#1
Fat Kid Rules The World

Fat Kid Rules The World

2012★ 6.7

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

A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band....

#2
In the Soup

In the Soup

1992★ 6.6

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

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film....

#3
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

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

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

#4
Strictly Sexual

Strictly Sexual

2008★ 6.1

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

Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes....

#5
Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007★ 6.3

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

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life fem...

#6
(Untitled)

(Untitled)

2009★ 6.4

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

A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic satire of the state of contemporary art....

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