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10 Best Movies Like Buddy

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

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#1
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 Buddy 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...

#2
Jeffrey

Jeffrey

1995★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddy 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...

#3
House of Boys

House of Boys

2009★ 6.1

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

It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys...

#4
Holding the Man

Holding the Man

2015★ 7.7

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

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Thei...

#5
All Over Me

All Over Me

1997★ 5.9

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

Claude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All ...

#6
Parting Glances

Parting Glances

1986★ 6.8

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

Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick...

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