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10 Best Movies Like Try Hard

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

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#1
Art School Confidential

Art School Confidential

2006★ 6.1

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

Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must a...

#2
Ghost World

Ghost World

2001★ 7.1

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

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector...

#3
St. Elmo's Fire

St. Elmo's Fire

1985★ 6.1

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

Reluctant to let go of college life, a close-knit team of seven friends--irresponsible saxophone player Billy, young Republican Alec, his girlfriend Leslie, struggling journalist K...

#4
Accepted

Accepted

2006★ 6.4

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

A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown pie...

#5
Some Kind of Wonderful

Some Kind of Wonderful

1987★ 6.8

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

Keith Nelson, an artsy high school outcast, tries to land a date with popular girl Amanda Jones with some help from his tomboy best friend, Watts. However, Watts realizes she likes...

#6
Mary and Max

Mary and Max

2009★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Try Hard for fans of Animation & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man livin...

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