
10 Best Movies Like Mysterious Skin
If you loved Mysterious Skin, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

The Prince of Tides
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mysterious Skin for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process....

Midnight Cowboy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mysterious Skin for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and...

You Were Never Really Here
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mysterious Skin for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares begin to overtake him, and a conspiracy is unco...

Transamerica
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mysterious Skin for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York....

L.I.E.
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mysterious Skin for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes — until the...

Once Upon a Time in America
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mysterious Skin for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old li...