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10 Best Movies Like Zappa

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

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#1
The Wanderers

The Wanderers

1979★ 7.0

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

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history...

#2
Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil

1998★ 6.6

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

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wante...

#3
Dear Zoe

Dear Zoe

2022★ 6.5

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

Tess enlists her biological father – a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks – and the charming juvenile delinquent next door to help her come to grips with the death o...

#4
Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones

2017★ 6.4

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

Fourteen-year-old Charlie's life changes when Jasper takes his help to dispose of the body of his girlfriend, Laura. He decides to look for the murderer and falls in love with Laur...

#5
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#6
Joe the King

Joe the King

1999★ 6.0

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

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly old...

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