Movies like Beware the Gonzo (2010)
The best movies like Beware the Gonzo (2010) are The Wackness (2008), As Cool as I Am (2013) and It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010). If Beware the Gonzo 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
- NewestI Like Movies (2023)Released 2023
The Wackness (2008)
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor's daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAs Cool as I Am (2013)
In a small American town, 16-year-old Lucy is left to largely raise herself, managing the household while her immature mother works and her father is away in Canada for months at a time. As her parents' emotional distance intensifies, Lucy explores her own sexuality with her childhood best friend, Kenny.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDrillbit Taylor (2008)
Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Extra Man (2010)
A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGoats (2012)
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAdventures in Public School (2018)
A socially-awkward, home-schooled kid forces his way into public school against his suffocating, but loving, mother's wishes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTenure (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 thisI Like Movies (2023)
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDope (2015)
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Road Within (2014)
A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThink Big (1989)
Two truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Sylvio (2017)
A small town gorilla joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identity, sending him on an adventure of self-discovery where reality and fantasy start to blend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Girl Most Likely (2013)
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFootnote (2011)
Jerusalem, Israel. Professors Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik, father and son, have dedicated their lives to the study of the Jewish scriptures. Eliezer is a stubborn and methodical scholar who has never been recognized for his work; Uriel is a rising star, someone admired and praised by his colleagues. The fragile balance that has kept their personal relationship almost intact is broken in an unexpected way by a simple phone call.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNapoleon Dynamite (2004)
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Idiot Brother (2011)
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Think Twice (2016)
An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSword of Trust (2019)
When Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, the only item she's received is an antique sword that he believed to be proof that the South won the Civil War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdult World (2014)
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Bag of Hammers (2011)
Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhy Stop Now? (2012)
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThumbsucker (2005)
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his diagnosis with ADHD and subsequent experience using Ritalin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKabluey (2007)
Leslie is left with few options when her husband is sent back to war in the Middle East. A modest amount of help arrives in the form of his brother, Salman, who is less than prepared to care for the couple's two preadolescent boys. When Leslie still can't make ends meet on her own, Salman is forced to find employment, but, with minimal qualifications, his only option is to become a mascot for a digital company by donning a bulbous blue costume.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisWhite Reindeer (2013)
After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne searches for the true meaning of Christmas during one sad, strange December in suburban Virginia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Plan B (2021)
After a regrettable first sexual encounter, a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPretty Persuasion (2005)
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSex and the Teenage Mind (2002)
Bumbling high school geek Virgil Heitmeyer has yet to lose his virginity. A golden opportunity for finally getting deflowered arises after Virgil manages to get closer to the beautiful and popular Kellie Guthrie. Will Virgil's date with Kellie go smoothly? Or is Virgil going to blow his big chance to score with the girl of his dreams?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Beware the Gonzo?
The closest matches to Beware the Gonzo are The Wackness (2008), As Cool as I Am (2013) and It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Beware the Gonzo?
People who watched Beware the Gonzo most often go on to The Wackness (2008), As Cool as I Am (2013) and It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Beware the Gonzo?
Brigsby Bear (2017), rated 7.1/10 by 436 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Beware the Gonzo?
I Like Movies (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Beware the Gonzo?
Yes: The Wackness (2008), As Cool as I Am (2013) and It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010).
How are movies similar to Beware the Gonzo chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Beware the Gonzo, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.