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10 Best Movies Like The Mimic

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

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#1
Throw Momma from the Train

Throw Momma from the Train

1987★ 6.2

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

Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock cl...

#2
Mother

Mother

1996★ 6.8

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

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems....

#3
Adaptation.

Adaptation.

2002★ 7.3

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

Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin...

#4
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

2002★ 5.9

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

The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of p...

#5
Young Adult

Young Adult

2011★ 5.8

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

A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family....

#6
She Came to Me

She Came to Me

2023★ 6.1

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

Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapist-turned-wife Patricia sugges...

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