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10 Best Movies Like The Dust Child

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

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#1
Dissonance

Dissonance

2018★ 10.0

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

A man must express his true passion of music and rhythm in a world where it is repressed and outlawed....

#2
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

2011★ 4.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dust Child for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. Retired spy Marissa is called back into act...

#3
Ask Me If I'm Happy

Ask Me If I'm Happy

2000★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dust Child for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship ...

#4
St Trinian's

St Trinian's

2007★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dust Child for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When their beloved school is threatened with closure should the powers that be fail to raise the proper funds, the girls scheme to steal a priceless painting and use the profits to...

#5
My First Time

My First Time

2012★ 6.6

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

Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perf...

#6
Camping 2

Camping 2

2010★ 4.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Dust Child for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who finds himself facing a mid-life crisis. When his fiancée Valérie decides to put th...