
10 Best Movies Like Whiplash
If you loved Whiplash, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Blame
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whiplash for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that d...

Mo' Better Blues
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whiplash for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid o...

Class of 1984
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whiplash for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid ...

Kids
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whiplash for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights....

Molly Maxwell
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whiplash for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing....

The Crush
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Whiplash for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences....