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10 Best Movies Like The Ambitious Youth

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

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#1
The Slammin' Salmon

The Slammin' Salmon

2009★ 5.8

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

The brutal former heavyweight boxing champion Cleon "Slammin'" Salmon (Duncan), now owner of a Miami restaurant, institutes a competition to see which waiter can earn the most mone...

#2
How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife

1965★ 6.3

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

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charle...

#3
The F**k-It List

The F**k-It List

2020★ 6.0

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

After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can....

#4
Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987★ 7.3

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

Eddie Murphy delights, shocks and entertains with dead-on celebrity impersonations, observations on '80s love, sex and marriage, a remembrance of Mom's hamburgers and much more....

#5
Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil

Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil

1993★ 7.1

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

Everyone's favorite TV superhero Action Mask shows up in Kasukabe, and he's trying to get something from Shin-chan -- but what could it be?...

#6
Easy Money

Easy Money

1983★ 6.0

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

To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him....

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