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10 Best Movies Like Good Boy

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

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#1
The Son of a Thousand Men

The Son of a Thousand Men

2025★ 7.5

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

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets....

#2
Let Go

Let Go

2024★ 7.9

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

A jaded mother makes a last-ditch effort to keep her family together by taking them on a trip to their teenage daughter’s pole dancing competition....

#3
An Irish Goodbye

An Irish Goodbye

2022★ 6.6

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

In rural Northern Ireland, following the untimely death of their mother, a young man with Down syndrome and his estranged brother discover her unfulfilled bucket list....

#4
The Stranger

The Stranger

2025★ 6.8

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

In 1930s Algeria, the daily life of an indifferent Frenchman is shaken by the death of his mother and a fateful encounter on a beach....

#5
The Divide

The Divide

2021★ 6.6

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

Raf and Julie, a couple on the verge of breaking up, find themselves in an emergency ward bordering on collapse on the evening of a Parisian Yellow Vest protest. Their encounter wi...

#6
Notes for My Son

Notes for My Son

2020★ 7.5

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

Battling terminal cancer, a woman writes a one of a kind notebook about life, death and love for her son to remember her by. Based on a true story....