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10 Best Movies Like Doing What I Please

If you loved Doing What I Please, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Doing What I Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#2
Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Doing What I Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kama...

#3
House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

1955★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Doing What I Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals....

#4
Vanya on 42nd Street

Vanya on 42nd Street

1994★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Doing What I Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play i...

#5
Harmonium

Harmonium

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Doing What I Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Toshio hires Yasaka to work in his workshop. But then this old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life....

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Doing What I Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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