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10 Best Movies Like Average Joe

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

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#1
12 Mighty Orphans

12 Mighty Orphans

2021★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Average Joe for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nat...

#2
Preacher's Kid

Preacher's Kid

2010★ 6.2

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

Longing to experience more of life, twentysomething preacher's daughter Angie strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show....

#3
I'm Not Ashamed

I'm Not Ashamed

2016★ 7.2

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

Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999....

#4
My Brother's Keeper

My Brother's Keeper

2021★ 7.5

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

Returning war veteran SFC Travis Fox has one more battle to fight – PTSD. Following an improvised explosive device attack that killed his best friend and their entire Ranger platoo...

#5
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#6
Unconditional

Unconditional

2012★ 6.6

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

Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she’s happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she’s told and illustrated since childh...

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