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10 Best Movies Like Boy

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

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#1
Boy

Boy

2010★ 7.3

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

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to...

#2
Boy

Boy

1992★ 6.3

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

Jerry Lewis short film, part of the 1992 omnibus film "How Are the Kids?". It tells the story of a child that faces discrimination as the only white student at his school....

#3
Boy

Boy

2004★ 5.7

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

Boy is the unsettling story of a young male prostitute, or Rent Boy, in a small rural town who learns the truth behind a hit and run accident which has killed a local girl. When th...

#4
Boy

Boy

2012★ 4.3

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

Boy ('the helper') tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an illegal Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is liv...

#5
The Beaver

The Beaver

2011★ 6.4

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

Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane...

#6
Boy

Boy

★ 4.2

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

Today, seventeen-year-old Tatiana is not going to school. She has a far more important event planned with her friends: saying goodbye to the boy she’s not ready to leave yet....