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10 Best Movies Like Monkeys in the Attic

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

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#1
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

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

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#3
Beats

Beats

2019★ 6.6

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

An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts....

#4
The Giver

The Giver

2014★ 6.6

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

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "r...

#5
Roxanne Roxanne

Roxanne Roxanne

2017★ 6.0

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

The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne Shanté was well on her way to b...

#6
A Mouthful of Air

A Mouthful of Air

2021★ 6.5

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

Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum dep...

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