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10 Best Movies Like Buddies

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

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#1
Jeffrey

Jeffrey

1995★ 6.2

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

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it...

#2
The Normal Heart

The Normal Heart

2014★ 7.7

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

The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in t...

#3
The Cure

The Cure

1995★ 7.9

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

Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer....

#4
A Home at the End of the World

A Home at the End of the World

2004★ 6.4

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

Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and t...

#5
Rent

Rent

2005★ 6.8

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

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic....

#6
Three Months

Three Months

2022★ 7.0

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

Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits t...

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