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10 Best Movies Like Beautiful Boy

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

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#1
Hot Summer Nights

Hot Summer Nights

2018★ 6.6

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

In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventuall...

#2
Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name

2017★ 8.1

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

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-...

#3
Boy Erased

Boy Erased

2018★ 7.0

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

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be pe...

#4
Border

Border

2018★ 6.7

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

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about hers...

#5
A Rainy Day in New York

A Rainy Day in New York

2019★ 6.5

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

Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures....

#6
The Sea of Trees

The Sea of Trees

2016★ 6.2

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

In Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a troubled teacher meets a mysterious lost stranger who takes him on a life-changing journey of love and redemption....