Movies Like Don't Be Bad (2015)

Don't Be Bad is a 2015 crime, drama film from Claudio Caligari with a MovieMagicScore of 7.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Killing Zoe and Spike Island.

Crime Drama

Killing Zoe

1993

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his services, Zed soon finds himself trapped in a situation beyond his control when heroin abuse, poor planning and a call-girl named Zoe all conspire to turn the robbery into a very bloody siege.

6.2

MagicScore

Spike Island

2012

Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.

6.3

MagicScore

Rush

1991

Undercover cop Jim Raynor is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates, is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines. While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.

6.6

MagicScore

Marihuana

1936

A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.

3.6

MagicScore

T2 Trainspotting

2017

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

6.9

MagicScore

Go Ask Alice

1973

A 15-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.

5.5

MagicScore

Liquid Sky

1982

An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

5.8

MagicScore

Payback

1999

With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

6.8

MagicScore

Luna

1979

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

6.3

MagicScore

#10

Boogie Nights

1997

In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.

7.6

MagicScore

#11

Trainspotting

1996

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

8.0

MagicScore

#12

What Josiah Saw

2021

A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.

5.8

MagicScore

#13

My Own Private Idaho

1991

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

7.1

MagicScore

#14

I Melt with You

2011

Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.

5.3

MagicScore

#15

Layer Cake

2004

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

6.9

MagicScore

#16

The Young Offenders

2016

Two teenage boys from inner-city Cork steal bicycles and ride off on a 160km quest to find an unrecovered bale of cocaine worth 7,000,000 euros.

7.1

MagicScore

#17

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

1982

On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.

5.9

MagicScore

#18

Go

1999

A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.

7.0

MagicScore

#19

Human Traffic

1999

For Jip, Lulu, Koop, Nina and Moff, the dead-end jobs they endure during the week just kill the time until Friday night. That's when they cut very loose and get on the rollercoaster ride that takes them right through to Monday morning.

6.8

MagicScore

#20

The Acid House

1998

A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.

6.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Don't Be Bad?

The top films similar to Don't Be Bad by MovieMagicScore are Killing Zoe (6.2), Spike Island (6.3), Rush (6.6). Each shares crime/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Don't Be Bad worth watching?

Don't Be Bad holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.8/10 from 1,002 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Don't Be Bad?

Don't Be Bad (2015) is a crime, drama film directed by Claudio Caligari, starring Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D'Amico.

Where can I find more recommendations like Don't Be Bad?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more crime recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Don't Be Bad

This ranked list pairs Don't Be Bad (2015), a crime and drama film from Claudio Caligari, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Luca Marinelli take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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