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10 Best Movies Like August

If you loved August, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
I Like Movies

I Like Movies

2023★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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....

#2
Starcrossed

Starcrossed

2005★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them....

#3
Speak

Speak

2004★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her paren...

#4
May

May

2003★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands....

#5
As You Are

As You Are

2016★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of di...

#6
Giant Little Ones

Giant Little Ones

2019★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to August for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th...

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