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10 Best Movies Like Stand by Me

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

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#1
Gigi & Nate

Gigi & Nate

2022★ 7.5

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

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me 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
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me 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...

#4
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#5
A Millionaire's First Love

A Millionaire's First Love

2006★ 7.3

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

When a high school diploma becomes the key to unlocking his inheritance, a spoiled teen gets an invaluable lesson in life and love in a rural village....

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

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