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Movies Like It's Not About Jimmy Keene

If you liked It's Not About Jimmy Keene (2019), a movie directed by Caleb Jaffe, 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. 1The Hate U Give

    The Hate U Give (2018)

    ★ 8.1/10

    Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds…

  2. 2Eve's Bayou

    Eve's Bayou (1997)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

  3. 3Marked for Death

    Marked for Death (1990)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths…

  4. 4GoodFellas

    GoodFellas (1990)

    ★ 8.5/10

    The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

  5. 5The Glass House

    The Glass House (2001)

    ★ 6/10

    When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the…

  6. 6Death at a Funeral

    Death at a Funeral (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally drugs her fiancé, and Aaron's successful younger brother, Ryan, flies…

  7. 7The Believers

    The Believers (1987)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the…

  8. 8Blue Ruin

    Blue Ruin (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10

    When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect…

  9. 9The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

  10. 10Summer '03

    Summer '03 (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10

    16-year-old Jamie Winkle and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed. As her family deals with her grandmother's surprising dying messages…

  11. 11The Immigrant

    The Immigrant (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10

    1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

  12. 12The Cement Garden

    The Cement Garden (1993)

    ★ 6.8/10

    After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that…

  13. 13Hereditary

    Hereditary (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10

    When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.

  14. 14Charlie St. Cloud

    Charlie St. Cloud (2010)

    ★ 7/10

    Accomplished sailor Charlie St. Cloud has the adoration of his mother Claire and his little brother Sam, as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his…

  15. 15The Addams Family

    The Addams Family (1991)

    ★ 7.1/10

    When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to…

  16. 16The Shack

    The Shack (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

  17. 17We Need to Talk About Kevin

    We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

    ★ 7.5/10

    After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

  18. 18The Devil All the Time

    The Devil All the Time (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

  19. 19Rumble Fish

    Rumble Fish (1983)

    ★ 7/10

    Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.

  20. 20Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

    ★ 8.1/10

    After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the…

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