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10 Best Movies Like The Rotting

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

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#1
A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009★ 6.2

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

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends hi...

#2
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Rotting for fans of Comedy & Drama. 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
Almost Friends

Almost Friends

2017★ 6.3

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

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

#4
Cosi

Cosi

1996★ 6.1

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

Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overru...

#5
Juniper

Juniper

2021★ 6.5

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

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his lif...

#6
The Middle Man

The Middle Man

2021★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Rotting for fans of Comedy & Drama. 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...

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