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10 Best Movies Like Buddy

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

#1
Taps

Taps

1981★ 6.8

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

Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers....

#2
Speed 2: Cruise Control

Speed 2: Cruise Control

1997★ 4.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddy for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of the hijacker, it's up to the o...

#3
Flipper

Flipper

1996★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddy for fans of Family & Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environme...

#4
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#5
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

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

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#6
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...