Movies like Let's Start a Cult (2024)
The best movies like Let's Start a Cult (2024) are Most Likely to Murder (2018), Stavros Halkias: Uncle Stav (2026) and Madness in the Method (2019). If Let's Start a Cult hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Big Lebowski (1998)7.9/10 from 12,830 votes
- NewestStavros Halkias: Uncle Stav (2026)Released 2026
Most 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 thisStavros Halkias: Uncle Stav (2026)
In this unruly set, Stavros Halkias imagines becoming a "dirtbag" uncle, roasts the health care system and warns of the risks of living your best life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Madness in the Method (2019)
Jason wants to be taken more seriously as an actor, so he asks his friend Kevin Smith for advice, and decides to become a method actor. Trouble is, being a method actor drives him mad and he slowly becomes a serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisFucktoys (2025)
AP’s got a curse and it’s really fucking up her vibe.
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Road Hard (2015)
After his movie and television career has run dry, Bruce Madsen (Adam Carolla) is forced to go back on the road playing one dingy comedy club after another, spending endless nights in budget hotel rooms and always flying coach. Amidst trying to revitalize his career, rekindle his love life and put his daughter through college, Bruce knows one thing for sure - he must get off the road. ROAD HARD is the story of that journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Jay and Seth Versus the Apocalypse (2007)
Originally a roughly eight-minute short comedy film. It was adapted into a feature film, This Is the End. It follows the two friends and actors who have shut themselves in their apartment and argue over their predicament during some unspecified end-of-the-world event.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Bottoms (2023)
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hangover (2009)
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a nasty hangover to try to make it to the church on time.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Duel (2024)
When a friend group is torn apart by betrayal, they decide to settle their differences in the most old school of ways. Leaving their modern home of Los Angeles, they embark on a bizarre adventure that seemingly takes them back in time across an underground cave river. Cocaine. Existentialism. A four hundred and fifty pound pig. True love. Cosmic jokes. Mexico?
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Uncle Nick (2015)
A drunk uncle attempts to score with his flirtatious step-niece on Christmas Eve.
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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 thisAddicted to Fresno (2015)
Two co-dependent sisters, a recovering sex addict and a lonely lesbian who work as hotel maids in Fresno, go to ludicrous lengths to cover up an accidental crime.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisSeven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss (2020)
A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a deranged cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmerican Dreamer (2022)
In this winsome comedy, an entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing, but he quickly realizes that his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Big Lebowski (1998)
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAmerican Ultra (2015)
Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Art of Self-Defense (2019)
Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero (2016)
A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisMike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026)
Two gangsters and the woman they love try to survive the most dangerous night of their lives. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s one wild ingredient added to the mix: a time machine.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Overnight (2015)
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisLousy Carter (2024)
Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend's wife. He has six months to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Half Baked: Totally High (2024)
JR and his friends search for money to bury one of his best friends who died from smoking the most powerful joint in the world.
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The Gutter (2024)
Walt (lover of threesomes, hater of shirts) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a former Pro Bowler as they discover he might be THE GOAT of the lanes. The only things standing in their way are racism, alcoholism and Linda "The Crusher" Curson.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2020)
CIA agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the perilous mission of destroying “The Soviet Union!" As they enter the system using a VR simulation, their mission quickly turns into a delirious trap, far more complex than expected, as the fabric of reality starts unraveling around them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTake Me (2017)
Ray is a fledgling entrepreneur who specializes in high-end simulated abductions. He jumps at the chance when a mysterious client contracts him for a weekend kidnapping with a handsome payday at the end. But the job isn't all that it seems.
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SnoozefestMovies like thisCrumb Catcher (2024)
After blacking out on his wedding night, Shane and his wife head to a remote estate for their honeymoon. That night, there’s a knock at the door; a waiter and bartender from the reception, blackmailing Shane for something he can’t remember doing. But the blackmailers don’t just want money. They’re after business partners for their invention, an outlandish device called… The Crumb Catcher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
An Evening with Tim Heidecker (2020)
Filmed in Los Angeles in pre-COVID times and produced by Abso Lutely Productions, An Evening With Tim Heidecker features Tim’s unique, no-holds-barred takes on modern inconveniences, PC culture, politics and marriage. You can call it a send-up, a parody, a character, a performance piece, or whatever you’d like, but at the end of the day, it’s jokes! Please clap.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Let's Start a Cult?
The closest matches to Let's Start a Cult are Most Likely to Murder (2018), Stavros Halkias: Uncle Stav (2026) and Madness in the Method (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Let's Start a Cult?
People who watched Let's Start a Cult most often go on to Most Likely to Murder (2018), Stavros Halkias: Uncle Stav (2026) and Madness in the Method (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Let's Start a Cult?
The Big Lebowski (1998), rated 7.9/10 by 12,830 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Let's Start a Cult?
Stavros Halkias: Uncle Stav (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Let's Start a Cult?
Yes: Most Likely to Murder (2018), Stavros Halkias: Uncle Stav (2026) and Madness in the Method (2019).
How are movies similar to Let's Start a Cult chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Let's Start a Cult, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.