Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 14, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Boys on the Outside

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

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#1
Paprika

Paprika

1991★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Boys on the Outside for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend as a prostitute. Amid the hustle...

#2
Don't Be Bad

Don't Be Bad

2015★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Boys on the Outside for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio ...

#3
Loro 1

Loro 1

2018★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Boys on the Outside for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in po...

#4
Shoeshine

Shoeshine

1946★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Boys on the Outside for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll...

#5
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Boys on the Outside for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#6
The Unknown Woman

The Unknown Woman

2006★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Boys on the Outside for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the be...

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