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10 Best Movies Like Burn After Reading

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

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#1
Summer of 69

Summer of 69

2025★ 6.5

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

In an effort to land the guy she's been pining after since grade school, Abby hires a local stripper named Santa Monica to teach her everything she needs to know about confidence a...

#2
The Art of Self-Defense

The Art of Self-Defense

2019★ 6.6

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

Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a ...

#3
Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer

2025★ 6.9

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

A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by n...

#4
Hooking Up

Hooking Up

2020★ 6.3

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

Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addi...

#5
Magazine Dreams

Magazine Dreams

2025★ 6.7

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

Aspiring bodybuilder Killian Maddox struggles to find human connection in an exploration of celebrity and violence. Nothing deters him from his fiercely protected dream of supersta...

#6
Analyze That

Analyze That

2002★ 5.8

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

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel ne...

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