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10 Best Movies Like Boys Town

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

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#1
Herself

Herself

2020★ 6.7

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

Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws...

#2
Neruda

Neruda

2016★ 6.3

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

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is str...

#3
Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955★ 7.3

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

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder....

#4
Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

1938★ 6.5

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

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Mari...

#5
Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild

1935★ 6.2

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

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf...

#6
Cloak and Dagger

Cloak and Dagger

1946★ 6.4

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

Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis....