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10 Best Movies Like Cooley High

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

#1
Stir Crazy

Stir Crazy

1980★ 6.5

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

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promot...

#2
House Party

House Party

1990★ 6.4

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

Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep....

#3
Shaft

Shaft

1971★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cooley High for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter....

#4
Three the Hard Way

Three the Hard Way

1974★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cooley High for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After his wife is kidnapped by a group of White supremacists, a record producer teams up with a PR man and a martial artist to get her back and put a stop to their plot to poison t...

#5
Cult of Chucky

Cult of Chucky

2017★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cooley High for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family... until a string of grisly deat...

#6
The Killer

The Killer

2023★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cooley High for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal....