Movies like This Boy's Life

20 movies like This Boy's Life, ordered by similarity : We the Animals(2018), Giant Little Ones(2018), Loveling(2018), Love, Simon(2018), A Taste of Honey(1961), Lady Bird(2017), Moonlight(2016), What Will People Say(2017), The Escape(2017), Two Friends(1986), Marilyn(2018), Wildlife(2018) ...

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This Boy's Life

The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.

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We the Animals

Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.

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Giant Little Ones

Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.

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Loveling

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety about sending her eldest son out into the world on his own.

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Love, Simon

Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends and all of his classmates: he's gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity.

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A Taste of Honey

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

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Lady Bird

In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

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Moonlight

A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.

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What Will People Say

The story of Nisha, daughter of a Pakistani-Norwegian family, who is kidnapped to Pakistan by her parents when her father finds her in bed with a man.

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The Escape

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

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Two Friends

Two Australian teenage girls (Emma Coles, Kris Bidenko) go from best friends to ex-friends in a year.

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Marilyn

Marcos, a shy young boy, lives with his family in rural Argentina. Gender roles are rigid, the family needs money, and he is expected to help keep the cattle herded. But Marcos finds time to slip away to secretly put on makeup and try on dresses.

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Wildlife

A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.

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Rebel Without a Cause

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.

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Allure

A house cleaner meets a teenaged girl and convinces her to run away and live with her in secret.

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Carol

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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Thirteen

A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.

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The Boys in the Band

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

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Beach Rats

A Brooklyn teenager spends his days experimenting with drugs and looking online for older men to meet with.

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Boy Erased

The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.

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Freak Show

Follows the story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

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