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10 Best Movies Like The Mess He Made

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

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#1
Parting Glances

Parting Glances

1986★ 6.8

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

Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick...

#2
A Home at the End of the World

A Home at the End of the World

2004★ 6.4

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

Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and t...

#3
Three Months

Three Months

2022★ 7.0

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

Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits t...

#4
Benjamin

Benjamin

2019★ 6.1

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

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces ...

#5
Buddies

Buddies

1985★ 8.2

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

David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and fa...

#6
Blue

Blue

1993★ 7.1

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

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, bo...

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