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10 Best Movies Like When Jeff Tried to Save the World

If you loved When Jeff Tried to Save the World, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
In the Soup

In the Soup

1992★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Jeff Tried to Save the World for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film....

#2
Beat the Devil

Beat the Devil

2002★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Jeff Tried to Save the World for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Driver drag-races the Devil, in order to earn James Brown his soul....

#3
Ferdinand the Bull

Ferdinand the Bull

1938★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Jeff Tried to Save the World for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveal...

#4
Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King

2014★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Jeff Tried to Save the World for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars....

#5
Landline

Landline

2017★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Jeff Tried to Save the World for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair....

#6
Chang Can Dunk

Chang Can Dunk

2023★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When Jeff Tried to Save the World for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American, bets the high school basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming. The bet leads 5' 8" Chang on a quest to learn to dunk—not only to impress...

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