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10 Best Movies Like Holden

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

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#1
Kids

Kids

1995★ 6.9

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

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights....

#2
The Invisible

The Invisible

2007★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Holden for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker....

#3
The Basketball Diaries

The Basketball Diaries

1995★ 7.4

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

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction....

#4
The Education of Charlie Banks

The Education of Charlie Banks

2007★ 5.9

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

College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus....

#5
How to Have Sex

How to Have Sex

2023★ 6.2

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

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives....

#6
The Crush

The Crush

1993★ 6.6

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

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences....

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