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10 Best Movies Like The Exchange Student

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

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#1
Small Apartments

Small Apartments

2012★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Exchange Student for fans of Comedy. 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...

#2
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Exchange Student for fans of 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....

#3
The Middle Man

The Middle Man

2021★ 6.1

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

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communic...

#4
Fat Kid Rules The World

Fat Kid Rules The World

2012★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Exchange Student for fans of 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....

#5
Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Exchange Student 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
It Boy

It Boy

2013★ 6.5

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

38-year-old Alice has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine except for her uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar, barely 20, crosses ...

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