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10 Best Movies Like Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!

If you loved Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Nine Months

Nine Months

1976★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Juli, who works in a brick factory, begins a romantic relationship with her boss, to whom she hides the fact that she has a son....

#2
Strange Object

Strange Object

2020★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Afri...

#3
Paradise and Back

Paradise and Back

1964★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tonnemann lives in one of the wooden sheds at the far end of Islands Brygge, close to Copenhagen's landfill site. But in 1928, he wants to leave this environment behind – to go whe...

#4
Sickies Making Films

Sickies Making Films

2018★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A love letter to film history, Sickies Making Films looks at our urge to censor movies and asks, Why? By focusing on the Maryland Board of Censors, the nation's longest lasting cen...

#5
Six: Inside

Six: Inside

2009★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animati...

#6
Rewind 3: The Final Chapter

Rewind 3: The Final Chapter

2023★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

An unfortunate highschooler finds an ancient book that summons Allentown's deadliest maniacs back from the dead....