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10 Best Movies Like Joysticks

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

#1
Day of the Woman

Day of the Woman

1978★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Joysticks for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict re...

#2
Doctor Detroit

Doctor Detroit

1983★ 5.0

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

A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four ...

#3
Dear Lemon Lima

Dear Lemon Lima

2009★ 5.5

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

After being dumped by Philip, her one true love, the infatuated Nessa enrolls at his private school in the hopes of winning him back....

#4
Surf II: The End of the Trilogy

Surf II: The End of the Trilogy

1984★ 4.6

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

Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its up to Jocko, Chuck, Bob and their s...

#5
Idiocracy

Idiocracy

2006★ 6.4

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

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 aft...

#6
The Lorax

The Lorax

2012★ 6.5

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

A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet...