Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Scholar

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

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#1
Ricky Gervais: Mortality

Ricky Gervais: Mortality

2025★ 6.9

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

Ricky Gervais tackles life, death and the state of the world in a brutally honest special that spares no topic, even his own mortality....

#2
Puff, Puff, Pass

Puff, Puff, Pass

2006★ 5.8

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

Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a shady character named Mr. Big ...

#3
Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out

Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out

2017★ 6.9

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

No-nonsense comic Bill Burr takes the stage in Nashville and riffs on fast food, overpopulation, dictators and gorilla sign language....

#4
The Slammin' Salmon

The Slammin' Salmon

2009★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Scholar 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...

#5
Jim Jefferies: Freedumb

Jim Jefferies: Freedumb

2016★ 7.3

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

Returning for a second Netflix comedy special, Jim Jefferies unleashes his famously ferocious black humor to a packed house in Nashville, Tennessee....

#6
Mike Birbiglia: Thank God for Jokes

Mike Birbiglia: Thank God for Jokes

2017★ 7.3

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

Mike Birbiglia declares that a joke should never end with "I’m joking." In his all-new comedy, Birbiglia tiptoes hilariously through the minefield that is modern-day joke-telling. ...

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