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10 Best Movies Like School Days

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

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#1
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

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

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

#2
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.4

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

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

#3
Radiance

Radiance

2017★ 6.5

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

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world....

#4
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

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

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to School Days 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...

#6
GO

GO

2001★ 7.4

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

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him....

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