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10 Best Movies Like Playing With Dolls

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

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#1
Boyhood

Boyhood

2014★ 7.5

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

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, ...

#2
As Cool as I Am

As Cool as I Am

2013★ 5.8

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

A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers....

#3
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof

1971★ 7.7

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

In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows....

#4
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

1980★ 7.6

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

Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnan...

#5
The Fabelmans

The Fabelmans

2022★ 7.6

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

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explore...

#6
Scarecrow

Scarecrow

1983★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing With Dolls for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because...

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