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10 Best Movies Like The Scum

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

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#1
Main Tera Hero

Main Tera Hero

2014★ 5.7

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

Seenu loves Sunaina but they're chased by a stalking cop, an infatuated beauty and her mafia don dad - can Seenu's heroics work?...

#2
Star

Star

2019★ 6.3

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

Giacomo is a low-level actor and voice actor with a great passion for acting. After another disappointing audition he has one last chance to get the part assigned...

#3
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

1898★ 5.7

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

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish....

#4
B. Monkey

B. Monkey

1999★ 5.8

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

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworl...

#5
Maine-Ocean Express

Maine-Ocean Express

1986★ 5.8

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

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi...

#6
The Draughtsman's Contract

The Draughtsman's Contract

1982★ 7.0

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

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away....