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10 Best Movies Like Boys Like Us

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

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#1
The Passengers of the Night

The Passengers of the Night

2022★ 6.9

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

On election night in 1981, celebrations spill out onto the street and there is an air of hope and change throughout Paris. But for Elisabeth, her marriage is coming to an end and s...

#2
School of Life

School of Life

2017★ 7.4

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

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful count...

#3
Paris 36

Paris 36

2008★ 6.1

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

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

#4
The Girl from Paris

The Girl from Paris

2001★ 6.4

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

A woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave and become a farmer....

#5
Our Struggles

Our Struggles

2018★ 6.4

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

While Olivier, a 39 year-old foreman gives his job everything he’s got, Laura, his wife and the mother of their two children, abandons the family home, leaving Olivier alone to fac...

#6
My Neighbor Adolf

My Neighbor Adolf

2022★ 6.5

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

South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an indepen...

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