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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
The Winslow Boy

The Winslow Boy

1999★ 6.7

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

Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing fiv...

#2
An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

1999★ 6.5

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

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past...

#3
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

2008★ 6.8

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

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate ci...

#4
Newsies

Newsies

2017★ 8.0

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

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of th...

#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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