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10 Best Movies Like White Oleander

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

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#1
Flirting

Flirting

1991★ 6.7

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

Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently....

#2
Summer Days, Summer Nights

Summer Days, Summer Nights

2018★ 5.6

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

On the south shore of Long Island in the summer of 1982, a group of working-class teenagers and 20-somethings work their summer jobs, fall in and out of love, and wrestle with what...

#3
The White Orchid

The White Orchid

2018★ 5.5

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

A social services investigator helps a local sheriff solve the brutal murder of a beautiful blonde known only as The White Orchid....

#4
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

1987★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to White Oleander for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Bill, a TV news reporter, tries to make ends meet to support himself, his wife and three daughters in urban Hong Kong. In the mist of the misadventures of Bill and his family, thei...

#5
The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project

1986★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to White Oleander for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and...

#6
Strike!

Strike!

1998★ 6.3

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

In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school whil...