10 Best Movies Like The First Lad
If you loved The First Lad, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Farming
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Lad for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Lad for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Lad for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate....

Petrov's Flu
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Lad for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy...

My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Lad for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

El Chicano
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The First Lad 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....