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10 Best Movies Like Big Boys Don’t Cry

If you loved Big Boys Don’t Cry, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Strange Weather

Strange Weather

2016★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Boys Don’t Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea....

#2
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Boys Don’t Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#3
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

2006★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Boys Don’t Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a...

#4
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Boys Don’t Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Boys Don’t Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law....

#6
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Big Boys Don’t Cry for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

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