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10 Best Movies Like After 82

If you loved After 82, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Gia

Gia

1998★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After 82 for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction....

#2
Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody

2018★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After 82 for fans of Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. ...

#3
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

2023★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After 82 for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens w...

#4
Blue

Blue

1993★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After 82 for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, bo...

#5
Dallas Buyers Club

Dallas Buyers Club

2013★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After 82 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live....

#6
The Normal Heart

The Normal Heart

2014★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to After 82 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in t...

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