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10 Best Movies Like Desperate Man Blues

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

#1
Scratch

Scratch

2001★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Man Blues for fans of Documentary & Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A feature-length documentary film about hip-hop DJing, otherwise known as turntablism. From the South Bronx in the 1970s to San Francisco now, the world's best scratchers, beat-dig...

#2
Darkman II: The Return of Durant

Darkman II: The Return of Durant

1995★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Man Blues for fans of Action. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in an...

#3
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Man Blues for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#4
Raya and the Last Dragon

Raya and the Last Dragon

2021★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Man Blues for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save huma...

#5
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

1992★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Man Blues for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But wh...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate Man Blues for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....