Movies like Lousy Carter (2024)
The best movies like Lousy Carter (2024) are Infinity Baby (2017), Bad Words (2014) and Family (2018). If Lousy Carter hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBrigsby Bear (2017)7.1/10 from 436 votes
- NewestFriendship (2025)Released 2025
Infinity Baby (2017)
Owing to a genetic mix-up involving stem cell research, the recently founded company Infinity Baby is able to offer a service for aspiring parents who never want to leave the baby bubble — infants that do not age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Bad Words (2014)
Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFamily (2018)
Kate Stone is career-focused with a brash attitude that keeps relationships at an arm's length. When her estranged brother calls asking her to baby-sit her tween niece Maddie, Kate reluctantly agrees to help. But baby-sitting overnight unexpectedly turns into a week, and Kate's life spins into chaos. As Maddie reveals stories of being bullied and of wanting to run away and be a Juggalo, the two form a unique bond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGet a Job (2016)
Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLost Cat Corona (2017)
A play-it-safe guy must search for his wife's missing cat, bringing him face-to-face with the colorful, wacky, and sometimes, the more dangerous element of his neighborhood, forcing him to confront his fears and rethink his M.O.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Free Time (2024)
Drew is approaching the end of his twenties and, with it, his relative youth. Looking to make a sudden change, he decides to quit his cushy desk job and “embrace life.” Cycling quickly through friends, hobbies, and goals, it’s not long until Drew realizes he has no idea what to do with his newfound freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Free Samples (2013)
A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIgnorance Is Bliss (2017)
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCuerpo escombro (2024)
Faced with problems finding work and involved with his brother Fermín, Javi pretends to be disabled to get a job he desperately needs. But faking cerebral palsy is more complicated than it seems, especially when love arises between him and his boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Internship (2013)
Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like this8 Minutes Idle (2012)
Based upon Matt Thorne's award-winning novel about life in a call centre, "Eight Minutes Idle" is a warped urban comedy about what it really means to put your life 'on hold'! Dan Thomas has always taken the path of least resistance - in his work life, home life and love life! But when Dan finds himself kicked out of the family home, he's faced with no option but to secretly move into the call centre where he works. Suddenly, everything that he's previously taken for granted - a well-stocked fridge, clean clothes, his friends, his self respect, even his beloved cat - are either disappearing or conspiring against him. As Dan's work/life balance spirals dangerously out of control, he's forced to break out of old habits and to dare to do something he has never had to do before - really care about someone other than himself. Written by Sarah Cox
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Coffee Town (2013)
Will is a 30-something website manager who uses local café, Coffee Town, as his office. When the owners of the shop discuss plans to convert Coffee Town into a bar, Will enlists the help of his two best friends Chad and Gino to save his freeloading existence. In order to thwart the plans of Coffee Town's owners, the trio stages a robbery to create the illusion of an unsafe neighborhood not suitable for the proposed venue. Also standing in their way is Sam, a disgruntled barista with delusions of grandeur and Will's heartache over unrequited love for Becca.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGood Kids (2016)
Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhostbox Cowboy (2018)
Tech entrepreneur Jimmy Van Horn arrives in China armed with an invention and confidence, only to learn that being American is not enough to succeed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Tenure (2010)
Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a beautiful new teacher whose ascending star threatens to eclipse him shakes up Charlie's plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBrigsby Bear (2017)
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBack to the Goode Life (2019)
A New York banker loses assets and lavish lifestyle due to false accusations. Forced to return to small Georgia hometown and quirky family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Mimic (2021)
Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that ‘the Kid’ may be a sociopath, ‘the Narrator’ goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him. After unsettling rendezvous, the truth he finds is anything but what he expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Catfight (2017)
The rivalry between two former college friends comes to a head when they both attend the same glamorous event.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPaddleton (2019)
An unlikely friendship between two neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisTake Me to Tarzana (2021)
After learning their company has been illicitly spying, collecting and selling data on them, three millennial friends band together to fight back against a lecherous boss and the company's maniacal, Tarzan-obsessed CEO.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Being Frank (2019)
A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRipped (2017)
Two free-spirited stoners find themselves catapulted into 2016 after smoking some top secret pot created by the CIA in 1986. With 30 years of their lives lost, these now balding and overweight friends use their uncomplicated enthusiasm to get their lives back on track and figure out the modern world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBad Teacher (2011)
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMost Likely to Murder (2018)
Billy, once the coolest kid in high school, comes back to his hometown 15 years later to find he’s no longer cool and the girl he still has feelings for now dates the former class outcast. Billy becomes obsessed with proving the outcast is a murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHow to Be a Man (2013)
When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFriendship (2025)
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, and his attempts to make an adult male friend threatens to ruin both of their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet's Start a Cult (2024)
Having missed out on his cult's long awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly-bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult... but will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny, or decide this life might be worth living after all?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Day Shall Come (2019)
An impoverished leader of a small religious commune in Miami is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for an FBI agent, who plans to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmateur Night (2016)
Guy Carter, an insecure expectant father unable to find work in his field, accepts a job driving hookers around Los Angeles. One long and crazy evening proves to our hero that he is, in fact, up to the task of fatherhood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Lousy Carter?
The closest matches to Lousy Carter are Infinity Baby (2017), Bad Words (2014) and Family (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Lousy Carter?
People who watched Lousy Carter most often go on to Infinity Baby (2017), Bad Words (2014) and Family (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Lousy Carter?
Brigsby Bear (2017), rated 7.1/10 by 436 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Lousy Carter?
Friendship (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Lousy Carter?
Yes: Infinity Baby (2017), Bad Words (2014) and Family (2018).
How are movies similar to Lousy Carter chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Lousy Carter, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.