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10 Best Movies Like Dead Wood

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

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#1
Us Now

Us Now

2009★ 6.7

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

Us Now is a documentary film project "about the power of mass collaboration, the government and the Internet" The New York Times describes it as a film which "paints a future in wh...

#2
Teen Spirit

Teen Spirit

2011★ 5.9

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

Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies, is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, bu...

#3
Christmas with Holly

Christmas with Holly

2012★ 6.3

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

After being dumped at the altar on her wedding day, Maggie Conway moves to the island town of Friday Harbor in Washington State, where she meets Mark Nagle, the local coffee shop o...

#4
Smart Ass

Smart Ass

2014★ 6.0

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

Kelly, Dan and Louis are students at a prestigious business school, destined to become tomorrow's elite. The industrious trio are determined to start putting their education into p...

#5
A Beautiful Wife

A Beautiful Wife

2007★ 5.7

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

Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good lo...

#6
I ♥ Huckabees

I ♥ Huckabees

2004★ 6.3

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

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wo...