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10 Best Movies Like Gentle Boy

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

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

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#2
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#3
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#4
Goodbye June

Goodbye June

2025★ 6.6

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

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season....

#5
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#6
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

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

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

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