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10 Best Movies Like Guarding Tess

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

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#1
Winner

Winner

2024★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Guarding Tess for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Winner is a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as an NSA contractor. A fresh take on the traditional ...

#2
My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven

1990★ 6.1

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

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile,...

#3
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home

2020★ 7.0

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

After Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, Shawn and Gus return to help him and find themselves embroiled in a case involving the personal, th...

#4
The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair

1967★ 6.3

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

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi G...

#5
My Bodyguard

My Bodyguard

1980★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Guarding Tess for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Clifford Peache, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch mo...

#6
The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective

1978★ 6.3

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

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wi...

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