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10 Best Movies Like J.T. LeRoy

If you loved J.T. LeRoy, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass

2003★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to J.T. LeRoy for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for t...

#2
Wittgenstein

Wittgenstein

1993★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to J.T. LeRoy for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the natu...

#3
Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges and Sunshine

2010★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to J.T. LeRoy for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from t...

#4
We Are Marshall

We Are Marshall

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to J.T. LeRoy for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the footbal...

#5
Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell

2019★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to J.T. LeRoy for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, onl...

#6
A Call to Spy

A Call to Spy

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to J.T. LeRoy for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability a...

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