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10 Best Movies Like Bent

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

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#1
Mala Noche

Mala Noche

1987★ 6.1

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

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — inc...

#2
The Officers' Ward

The Officers' Ward

2001★ 7.0

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

The first days of WWI. Adrien, a young and handsome lieutenant, is wounded by a piece of shrapnel. He will spend the entire wartime at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital, in Paris. Five lon...

#3
Buddies

Buddies

1985★ 8.2

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

David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and fa...

#4
Were the World Mine

Were the World Mine

2008★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bent for fans of Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

If you had a love-potion, who would you make fall madly in love with you? Timothy, prone to escaping his dismal high school reality through dazzling musical daydreams, gets to answ...

#5
Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

1987★ 6.6

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

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes...

#6
A Love to Hide

A Love to Hide

2005★ 7.2

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

A young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting ...