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10 Best Movies Like The Retrospective

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

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#1
Sleeper

Sleeper

1973★ 6.9

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

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government reg...

#2
The Bed Sitting Room

The Bed Sitting Room

1969★ 5.9

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

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself...

#3
Death Race 2000

Death Race 2000

1975★ 6.1

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

In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male a...

#4
Afterburn

Afterburn

2025★ 6.3

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

Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. T...

#5
South Park: Joining the Panderverse

South Park: Joining the Panderverse

2023★ 7.6

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

Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves. Meanwhile, the adults in South Park are wrestling with their own life decisions, as the advent of...

#6
Idiocracy

Idiocracy

2006★ 6.4

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

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 aft...

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