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10 Best Movies Like True North

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

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#1
I Am David

I Am David

2003★ 6.8

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

A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deli...

#2
Jonathan

Jonathan

2018★ 5.9

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

Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested...

#3
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

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

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#4
The Parts You Lose

The Parts You Lose

2019★ 6.7

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

An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm....

#5
Strings

Strings

2004★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True North for fans of Drama & Animation. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Prince Hal who sets out to avenge his dead father against the city's rivals, the Zeriths, little knowing it was his wicked uncle Nezo who is the real killer, with his ...

#6
We Die Young

We Die Young

2019★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to True North for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won't follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran come...

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