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10 Best Movies Like Jumping the Gun

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

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#1
Medicine for Melancholy

Medicine for Melancholy

2009★ 6.1

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

Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a d...

#2
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

2013★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jumping the Gun for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing....

#3
MirrorMask

MirrorMask

2005★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Jumping the Gun for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home....

#4
Destino

Destino

2003★ 7.2

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

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and b...

#5
Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

2007★ 6.3

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

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life fem...

#6
Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

1960★ 7.4

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

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reaction...

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