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Movies like Jack's Playground 7 (2004)

The best movies like Jack's Playground 7 (2004) are V/H/S (2012), For Sama (2019) and Shaft in Africa (1973). If Jack's Playground 7 hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. V/H/S (2012)

    When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  2. For Sama (2019)

    A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choice– whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughter’s life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  3. Shaft in Africa (1973)

    Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  4. Heavy Traffic (1973)

    A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  5. Videodrome (1983)

    As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. Rotting in the Sun (2023)

    A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. V/H/S/94 (2021)

    After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  8. Shampoo (1975)

    On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress Felicia Karpf, whose husband Lester is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Jackie.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

    Taking an ill-advised detour en-route to California, the Carter family soon run into trouble when their RV breaks down in the middle of the desert. Stranded, they find themselves at the mercy of monstrous cannibals lurking in the surrounding hills.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)

    Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. Darc (2018)

    To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. Crank: High Voltage (2009)

    Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. Phantasm II (1988)

    Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. Hard to Die (1990)

    While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. Jackass Number Two (2006)

    Jackass Number Two is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot. Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. Pink Flamingos (1972)

    Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  17. Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

    Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. Paradise Alley (1978)

    Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  19. Mandingo (1975)

    Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Good Dick (2008)

    A fidgety, wisecracking video store clerk develops a fixation on a particularly reclusive customer, a frequent visitor to the pornography section of Cinefile, the video store where he works in Los Angeles. After multiple failures to impress her during their brief daily transactions, he finds her street address in the store's database, drives to her apartment building and initiates an unconventional campaign to win her affections.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Jack's Playground 7?

The closest matches to Jack's Playground 7 are V/H/S (2012), For Sama (2019) and Shaft in Africa (1973). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Jack's Playground 7?

Start with V/H/S (2012), the closest match to Jack's Playground 7.

What is the highest-rated movie like Jack's Playground 7?

For Sama (2019), rated 8.2/10 by 323 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Jack's Playground 7?

Rotting in the Sun (2023) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Jack's Playground 7?

Yes: V/H/S (2012), For Sama (2019) and Shaft in Africa (1973).

How are movies similar to Jack's Playground 7 chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Jack's Playground 7, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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