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10 Best Movies Like Stand by Me

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

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#1
Gigi & Nate

Gigi & Nate

2022★ 7.5

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

A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend....

#2
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me 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
Wedding Dress

Wedding Dress

2010★ 7.4

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

When a single mother learns that she has terminal cancer, she prepares her young daughter to live without her, while saying goodbye to others around her....

#4
A Brand New Life

A Brand New Life

2009★ 7.3

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

Abandoned by her father, a girl adjusts to life in an orphanage....

#5
Imperial Dreams

Imperial Dreams

2014★ 6.6

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

A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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