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10 Best Movies Like Hopeless

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

#1
LaRoy, Texas

LaRoy, Texas

2024★ 6.8

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

Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRo...

#2
Midnight Runners

Midnight Runners

2017★ 7.5

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

Two apathetic police academy recruits who become best buddies through the tough training together witness a woman being abducted right before their very eyes. As they were taught i...

#3
Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart

Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart

2014★ 6.0

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

Between 1978 and 1979, the inhabitants of the Oise are in fear of a maniac who kills several hitchhikers and escape the police. He was then dubbed "the killer of the Oise" is actua...

#4
Sex Is Zero 2

Sex Is Zero 2

2007★ 5.7

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

In his 10th year at college, Eun-sik is part of a nearly ideal campus couple with swimming champ Kyung-ah. While their three-year relationship is solid, Eun-sik struggles to get to...

#5
Alienoid: Return to the Future

Alienoid: Return to the Future

2024★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hopeless for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are ...

#6
Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005★ 7.7

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house....