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10 Best Movies Like Actor for Hire

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

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#1
Angelique and the Sultan

Angelique and the Sultan

1968★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Actor for Hire for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides ...

#2
PorNO

PorNO

2010★ 4.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Actor for Hire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Max films his friends having lecherous fun at his own birthday party; unaware of how it will change his life. Just out of high school, by haphazard, he becomes a big porno producer...

#3
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

1990★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Actor for Hire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges....

#4
The Beautiful Person

The Beautiful Person

2008★ 6.5

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

In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her...

#5
The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street

1997★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Actor for Hire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto t...

#6
The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

2007★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Actor for Hire for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert....