
10 Best Movies Like Unlikely Heroes
If you loved Unlikely Heroes, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unlikely Heroes for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
When Alex is caught using magic to clean her room she is forced to go to wizard school with Justin. Max and Jerry camp out on the terrace to prove their manhood....

Re-Animated
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unlikely Heroes for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Jimmy is the kid everybody ignores and uses. One day, he gets into a freak accident. The only way for him to survive is a brain transplant. He gets the brain of Milt Appleday, a fa...

The World of Apu
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unlikely Heroes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....

Life Is Sweet
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unlikely Heroes for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, N...

L.A. Story
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unlikely Heroes for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of ...

The Marriage of Maria Braun
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Unlikely Heroes for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war y...