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10 Best Movies Like The Acrobat

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

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#1
Alter Ego

Alter Ego

2026★ 6.6

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

Alex, a quiet forty-something, leads an ordinary life until new neighbours move in. The husband is Alex’s perfect lookalike… except for one thing: he has hair. Alex sinks into a gr...

#2
John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid

John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid

2015★ 7.7

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

Armed with boyish charm and a sharp wit, the former "SNL" writer offers sly takes on marriage, his beef with babies and the time he met Bill Clinton....

#3
Noises Off...

Noises Off...

1992★ 7.2

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

Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a star actress quickly passing her p...

#4
Jim Jefferies: This Is Me Now

Jim Jefferies: This Is Me Now

2018★ 6.9

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

The gleefully irreverent Jefferies skewers “grabby” celebrities, political hypocrisy and his own ill-advised career moves in a brash stand-up special....

#5
Taylor Tomlinson: Look at You

Taylor Tomlinson: Look at You

2022★ 7.1

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

Breakups. Therapy. Bangs. Taylor's gone through some stuff since her quarter-life crisis, and she spins her mental health journey into insightful comedy....

#6
Hard to Die

Hard to Die

1990★ 6.1

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

While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange ...

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