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10 Best Movies Like Hearts and Bones

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

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#1
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hearts and Bones 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....

#2
The Bang Bang Club

The Bang Bang Club

2011★ 6.6

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

In the early to mid '90s, when the South African system of apartheid was in its death throes, four photographers - Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and João Silva - b...

#3
Jimmy P.

Jimmy P.

2013★ 6.1

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

At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect...

#4
The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields

1984★ 7.5

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

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. Wh...

#5
The Saint of Fort Washington

The Saint of Fort Washington

1993★ 6.7

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

Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is thre...

#6
Universal Soldier

Universal Soldier

1992★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hearts and Bones for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the fa...

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