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10 Best Movies Like October Sky

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

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#1
Class Enemy

Class Enemy

2013★ 6.7

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

Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An aware...

#2
Blue Sky

Blue Sky

1994★ 6.1

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

Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s America. Hank has become a thorn in ...

#3
The Con Artists

The Con Artists

1976★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to October Sky for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix ...

#4
Lost Boys: The Thirst

Lost Boys: The Thirst

2010★ 5.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to October Sky for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A mysterious fiend uses a designer drug to turn partiers at an all-night rave into his personal army of never-say-die bloodsuckers....

#5
Shall We Dance?

Shall We Dance?

1996★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to October Sky for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much...

#6
Vicky Donor

Vicky Donor

2012★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to October Sky for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A man is brought in by an infertility doctor to supply him with his sperm, where he becomes the biggest sperm donor for his clinic....