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10 Best Movies Like Young America

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

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#1
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

1948★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young America for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young ...

#2
The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015★ 6.6

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

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother....

#3
Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama

1934★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young America for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman....

#4
Born to Kill

Born to Kill

1947★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young America for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer....

#5
Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die

1939★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young America for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in ord...

#6
The Face Behind the Mask

The Face Behind the Mask

1941★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Young America for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hotel fire....

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