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10 Best Movies Like Playing With Dolls

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

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#1
Boyhood

Boyhood

2014★ 7.5

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

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, ...

#2
Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows

2003★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing With Dolls for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a...

#3
Grandview, U.S.A.

Grandview, U.S.A.

1984★ 5.8

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

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceano...

#4
Scarecrow

Scarecrow

1983★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing With Dolls for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because...

#5
The Fabelmans

The Fabelmans

2022★ 7.6

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

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explore...

#6
Skater Girl

Skater Girl

2021★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Playing With Dolls for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and comp...

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