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10 Best Movies Like Boys Cry

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

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#1
Nowhere

Nowhere

1997★ 6.8

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

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay...

#2
Red, White & Royal Blue

Red, White & Royal Blue

2023★ 7.9

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

After an altercation between Alex, the president's son, and Britain's Prince Henry at a royal event becomes tabloid fodder, their long-running feud now threatens to drive a wedge i...

#3
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2012★ 7.8

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

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, b...

#4
Blinded by the Light

Blinded by the Light

2019★ 6.9

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

In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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