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10 Best Movies Like Budgewoi Boy

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

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#1
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Budgewoi Boy 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...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

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

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#4
Two Distant Strangers

Two Distant Strangers

2020★ 7.0

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

A man trying to get home to his dog becomes stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop....

#5
El Chicano

El Chicano

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Budgewoi Boy 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
In Full Bloom

In Full Bloom

2019★ 6.8

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

Set shortly after the end of World War II, a philosophical boxing drama of two fighters from opposite worlds (USA and Japan) who are pulled together for a questionable fight arrang...

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