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10 Best Movies Like Dad Wanted

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

#1
Un mondo sotto social

Un mondo sotto social

2022★ 3.7

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

Stuck in a seaside town hoping to find the next big influencer, a marketer hatches a dubious plan to turn a mechanic into a social media sensation....

#2
You Shine in the Moonlight

You Shine in the Moonlight

2019★ 7.5

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

Takuya Okada (Takumi Kitamura) is a high school student. He visits his classmate Mamizu Watarase (Mei Nagano) in the hospital. Mamizu Watarase suffers from the mysterious ailment “...

#3
Contracorriente

Contracorriente

2006★ 8.2

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

Three young women live, suffer and enjoy themselves in Ciudad Juárez. They are alike in terms of their origin, they all come from the lower classes, however, Chuya, Cata and "La Gü...

#4
Uno y medio contra el mundo

Uno y medio contra el mundo

1973★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dad Wanted for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Small-time crook teams up with a street urchin for mutual support on the margins of society....

#5
Behind the Power

Behind the Power

2013★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dad Wanted for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

What would you do if one day you open the door of your house and a man you've never seen hits you, ties you to a chair, pulls out a bottle of tequila and start counting you his lif...

#6
Beware the Gorilla

Beware the Gorilla

2019★ 5.3

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

Lorenzo is a lawyer who files a lawsuit against the zoo of his town but after winning it he has to take home a gorilla....