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10 Best Movies Like Whatever Happened to the Future?

If you loved Whatever Happened to the Future?, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable...

Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable...

2025★ 6.6

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

Facing a world gone sideways, comedy icon Dave Chappelle delivers bold truths and potent punchlines in this no-holds-barred special....

#2
Ricky Gervais: Mortality

Ricky Gervais: Mortality

2025★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whatever Happened to the Future? 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....

#3
Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business

1990★ 6.3

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

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him....

#4
Eddie Murphy Raw

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whatever Happened to the Future? 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
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger

Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger

2008★ 7.6

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

An HBO special edited from three performances from Chris Rock's 2008 comedy tour: London (dark suit, dark shirt), Johannesburg (black suit, white shirt) and New York (shiny jacket)...

#6
Held Up

Held Up

1999★ 5.8

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

What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets carjacked by a teenager and he is...

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