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10 Best Movies Like The Play That Goes Wrong

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

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#1
The Bad Guys 2

The Bad Guys 2

2025★ 7.7

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

The now-reformed Bad Guys are trying (very, very hard) to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of crim...

#2
Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

2016★ 7.5

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

The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to BBC One. As part of its commitment to community theatre, the BBC has commissioned The Cornley Polytechnic ...

#3
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Play That Goes Wrong for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Play That Goes Wrong for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Play That Goes Wrong for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

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

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...