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10 Best Movies Like Because of a Boy

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

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#1
Sebastiane

Sebastiane

1976★ 6.5

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

Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where...

#2
Something Like Summer

Something Like Summer

2017★ 5.6

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

Something Like Summer traces the tumultuous relationship of Ben and Tim, secret high school sweethearts who grow over the years into both adulthood enemies and complicated friends....

#3
Fair Haven

Fair Haven

2017★ 6.3

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

After a long stint in gay conversion therapy, James, a young piano prodigy, returns home to his family farm and his emotionally-distant father, Richard. After Richard pressures Jam...

#4
Ugly Melanie

Ugly Melanie

2008★ 5.7

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

This is the story of too nice girl who one day decides to become evil. And who will find out it is not so easy to do wrong when you have always been nice....

#5
Winter Boy

Winter Boy

2022★ 6.7

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

Lucas is a 17-year-old gay teenager coping with the sudden and unexpected death of his father in an accident that may or may not have been suicide. He views his life as a wild anim...

#6
Trick

Trick

1999★ 6.9

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

Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new musical number gets a critical reception, a theatre colleague, Perry, tells Gabr...