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10 Best Movies Like Detachment

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

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#1
Radio Flyer

Radio Flyer

1992★ 7.0

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

A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is sub...

#2
The Browning Version

The Browning Version

1994★ 6.5

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

Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire for 'health ...

#3
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#4
The Wave

The Wave

1981★ 7.0

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

A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany....

#5
The Book of Henry

The Book of Henry

2017★ 7.5

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

Susan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support ...

#6
The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face

1993★ 6.6

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

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinera...

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