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10 Best Movies Like The Winslow Boy

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

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#1
Educating Rita

Educating Rita

1983★ 6.8

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

Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. Hi...

#2
Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society

1989★ 8.3

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

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, cour...

#3
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#4
The Go-Between

The Go-Between

1971★ 6.8

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

British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-betwe...

#5
Hamlet

Hamlet

2009★ 7.3

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

David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed b...

#6
84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road

1987★ 7.2

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

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special co...

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