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10 Best Movies Like American Pets

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

#1
The Brown Bunny

The Brown Bunny

2003★ 5.4

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

Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip...

#2
Ghost Light

Ghost Light

2018★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Pets for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A disgruntled summer-stock actor contemptuously disregards the superstition surrounding Shakespeare's tragedy, Macbeth and, by doing so, unleashes the curse of 'The Scottish Play' ...

#3
Enter the Wild

Enter the Wild

2018★ 4.1

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

On a trek to find the world's rarest tree, Dylan and his friends descend into harsh ravines and canyons. As the wilderness closes in on them they come face to face with hard truths...

#4
The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator

1940★ 8.3

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

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime....

#5
The Return of the Living Dead

The Return of the Living Dead

1985★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to American Pets for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies....

#6
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....