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10 Best Movies Like The Crying Boy

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

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#1
Re-Kill

Re-Kill

2015★ 6.0

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

Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead. When they see signs of a second outbreak, they fear humanity may not survive....

#2
Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation

Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation

2012★ 6.2

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

After inheriting the family mortuary, a pyrophobic mortician accidentally exposes hundreds of un-cremated bodies to toxic medical waste. As the corpses re-animate, the mortician's ...

#3
The Silence

The Silence

1963★ 7.5

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

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic i...

#4
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

2025★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crying Boy for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments ...

#5
Avatar

Avatar

2009★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Crying Boy for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization....

#6
Re-Cut

Re-Cut

2010★ 6.6

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

When twin girls are found dead in their family’s barn, reality star turned TV-reporter Meredith Phillips and her de-facto camera crew are dispatched to rural Wisconsin to investiga...