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10 Best Movies Like Mary Lou

If you loved Mary Lou, 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 Mary Lou 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
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
Adam

Adam

2020★ 6.4

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

A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident....

#4
God's Pocket

God's Pocket

2014★ 5.8

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

A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters....

#5
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mary Lou 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...

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