Movies Like Here's Lead in Your Pencil!

If you liked Here's Lead in Your Pencil! (1971), a movie directed by Richard Mailer, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
★ 6.1/10
An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones” are covert…
2
House (1985)
★ 6.2/10
A divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.
3
The Super (1991)
★ 5.9/10
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he must live in his rat-infested hell hole…
4
Listen Up Philip (2014)
★ 5.8/10
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend…
5
The Swimmer (1968)
★ 7.3/10
A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.
6
House of the Long Shadows (1983)
★ 6.4/10
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has…
7
Queen of Katwe (2016)
★ 7.2/10
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
8
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
★ 7.2/10
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
9
The Gift (2015)
★ 6.7/10
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
10
St. Vincent (2014)
★ 7.1/10
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
11
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
★ 6.5/10
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family…
12
Far from Heaven (2002)
★ 7.1/10
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
13
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
★ 7/10
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.
14
September (1987)
★ 6.2/10
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's mother, Diane, has recently arrived with her husband Lloyd, Lane's…
15
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
★ 6.5/10
After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long…
16
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
★ 6.3/10
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Kate, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works…
17
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
★ 6.5/10
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y…
18
The Woman in the Window (2021)
★ 6/10
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
19
Scenes from the Suburbs (2011)
★ 6.8/10
A resident of a suburban dystopia tries to reassemble his fragmented memories of life as a teen.
20
Don't Worry Darling (2022)
★ 6.8/10
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their…