Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 19, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Boys

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

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#1
Purple Hearts

Purple Hearts

2022★ 8.0

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

An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real....

#2
Reflections in a Golden Eye

Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967★ 6.5

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

Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post....

#3
Firebird

Firebird

2021★ 7.4

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

At the height of the Cold War, a troubled soldier forms a forbidden love triangle with a daring fighter pilot and his female comrade amid the dangerous surroundings of a Soviet Air...

#4
Benjamin

Benjamin

2019★ 6.1

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

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces ...

#5
The Inspection

The Inspection

2022★ 6.2

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

Ellis French is a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that...

#6
Just Charlie

Just Charlie

2017★ 7.0

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

Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy,...

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