15 Movies Like Local Dog
Loved Local Dog? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Driver's Ed
A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
7 Dogs
Interpol agent Khalid Al-Azzazi joins forces with Ghali Abu Dawood from the 7 Dogs crime syndicate to fight drug trafficking.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Local Dog.
Babes
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
Dog Gone
A courageous boy battles a gang of bumbling thieves to rescue a dog carrying a fortune in stolen diamonds.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
Groom & Two Brides
Adam is allergic to love, but somehow ends up engaged to both his boss's daughter and his first love. Now he must try to keep his double life a secret.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Local Dog.
Duplex
When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
London Calling
After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, a down on his luck hitman is forced to babysit the son of his new crime boss and show him how to become a man.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
Fun with Dick and Jane
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Local Dog.
Zaki Chan
Trouble follows Zaki wherever he goes, until he finds out that his father's boss needs a bodyguard for his kids and he decides to apply for the job even though he doesn't really fit the requirements.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
Abu Shanab
Esmat Abu Shanab (Yasmin Abdul Aziz) is a female police officer who works in an administrative position and tries in various ways to work on field assignments.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Local Dog.
Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill
Eddie Izzard takes her show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England and of Western empires, and the need for a European dream.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
When Pigs Have Wings
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting: imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a "forbidden" animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
Me Time
With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.
Clear History
Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Local Dog.