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10 Best Movies Like A Boy Named Sue

If you loved A Boy Named Sue, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Portrait of Jason

Portrait of Jason

1967★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Boy Named Sue for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like ...

#2
Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

2015★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Boy Named Sue for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveilla...

#3
The Last Repair Shop

The Last Repair Shop

2024★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Boy Named Sue for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in Ame...

#4
Disclosure

Disclosure

2020★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Boy Named Sue for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about the...

#5
Welcome to Chechnya

Welcome to Chechnya

2020★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Boy Named Sue for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian repub...

#6
Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream

Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream

2013★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Boy Named Sue for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Life Is But a Dream is a HBO documentary about the life of US singer Beyoncé Knowles during the years 2011 and 2012 and on the recording of her fifth album. The film was directed b...

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