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10 Best Movies Like The Boy Who Walked Backwards

If you loved The Boy Who Walked Backwards, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Driftwood

Driftwood

1947★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boy Who Walked Backwards for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana....

#2
The Peasants

The Peasants

1939★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boy Who Walked Backwards for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A historical revolutionary film depicting the struggle of peasants and the Baku proletariat against landowners and Musavatists in 1919....

#3
The Last Runway 2, Commando Yaguareté

The Last Runway 2, Commando Yaguareté

2023★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boy Who Walked Backwards for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Betty Jara reassembles the Yaguareté Commandos to exchange an imprisoned criminal for one of her own agents. A risky operation becomes even more so when she realizes they are not j...

#4
Dark Soul

Dark Soul

2008★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boy Who Walked Backwards for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Enrico Russo rapes and slaughters children. A magistrate, a policeman and a psychiatrist try to arrest him, but it’s too difficult to identify a cancer that hides itself behind a n...

#5
Calypso Is Like So

Calypso Is Like So

2003★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boy Who Walked Backwards for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Robert Mitchum lives in a deserted movie set....

#6
Strange Object

Strange Object

2020★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Boy Who Walked Backwards for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Afri...