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10 Best Movies Like Close

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

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#1
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#2
The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

2013★ 6.0

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

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother....

#3
The Good Neighbor

The Good Neighbor

2022★ 6.5

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

A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of g...

#4
Hellion

Hellion

2014★ 5.9

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

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

#5
The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

1983★ 6.6

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

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep a...

#6
Coldwater

Coldwater

2013★ 6.4

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

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmat...

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