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10 Best Movies Like The Squirrel

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

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#1
Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Squirrel 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...

#2
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

2017★ 6.1

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

When the evil mayor of Oakton decides to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a dangerous amusement park in its place, Surly Squirrel and his ragtag group of animal friends need to band...

#3
Trouble

Trouble

2019★ 6.6

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

A pampered dog named Trouble must learn to live in the real world while trying to escape from his former owner's greedy children and must learn how to survive on the big-city stree...

#4
Flora & Ulysses

Flora & Ulysses

2021★ 6.5

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

When Flora rescues a squirrel she names Ulysses, she is amazed to discover he possesses unique superhero powers, which take them on an adventure of humorous complications that ulti...

#5
Splendor

Splendor

1999★ 6.1

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

Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy ...

#6
A Dog Year

A Dog Year

2009★ 6.2

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

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